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Ugandan Girl, 8, with face tumour the size of a football to have pioneering surgery

An eight-year-old girl with a football-sized facial tumour is to have pioneering surgery before it strangles her. The rare growth first appeared when Trinny Amuhirwe was four-and-a-half, and she twice underwent surgery in her home country of Uganda to remove … read more »

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Sudanese Conjoined twins separated by Great Ormond Street doctors

Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors. Baby girls Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are 11 months old, were separated on 15 August after four operations at Great Ormond … read more »

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