Ivory Coast: disfigured by noma, they are finally operated
© iStockAt the La Rochelle clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, patients are regaining hope. The NGO "Sourire un jour" organized ...
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First in France: a fetus was operated on in utero for a congenital malformation
In July 2014, a little girl underwent surgery on her spinal cord. Achievement of a spina bifida(a malformation of the ...
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Egyptian woman weighing 500 kilos operated in India
© iStockPhotosShe has spent the majority of her life in bed because of her weight. A 36-year-old Egyptian woman, who ...
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Unusual: operated on the heart, she lives with the 14% remaining battery of her pacemaker
© iStockLow battery. This is, in short, the critical situation in which a 75-year-old Tahitian finds herself. Operated in 1992, ...
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Operated by a robot, a patient regains sight
British surgeons used a robot to perform eye surgery. Thanks to the precision of this technology, scientists were able to ...
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A fetus operated on then placed in its mother’s womb
October 28, 2016. It is an incredible operation that American surgeons have attempted, and it seems, successful, even if it ...
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Brain operated patient awake with 3D glasses
© CERVOA patient was operated on for brain tumour, at the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Angers (Maine-et-Loire). So far, ...
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Breast operated with the robot “da Vinci Xi”, she testifies
© iStockIn December 2014, the verdict fell: at 33, I had cancer in my left breast. My boys were 2 ...
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Unusual: brain operated for his epileptic seizures, his phobia of spiders disappears
© iStockThis is the story of a surgical operation against epileptic seizures, which inadvertently suppresses the phobia of spiders suffered ...
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