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Surgeon removes large brain tumours through patients’ eyebrows in ‘world first’ | UK News
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A surgeon is removing brain tumours “the size of large apples” through patients’ eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first. Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in Aberdeen, has adapted an existing technique to remove the growths, leaving patients with only a small scar and black eye. The operation can be over in…
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Pioneering surgeon Sir Roy Calne who carried out Europe’s first liver transplant dies | UK News
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Professor Sir Roy Calne, a pioneering surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died at the age of 93. Sir Roy died in Cambridge late on Saturday evening, his family said. The surgeon led the landmark transplant operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, on 2 May 1968. In 1978, he became the…