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Surgeons remove over 90% of 2-year-old's brain tumor
Oliver flew from Mexico to Barcelona in medicalized plane thanks to anonymous €200,000 donation
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2-year-old with brain tumor to undergo surgery in Barcelona on Friday after traveling from Mexico
Oliver flew in medicalized plane thanks to anonymous €200,000 donation
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Historic children's kidney transplant performed in Barcelona
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Most children have little or no Covid-19 symptoms, Barcelona hospital study suggests
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Toy Story 4 to premiere simultaneously in theaters and Sant Joan de Déu hospital
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Barcelona will host Europe’s largest hospital specialising in infantile cancer
Surgeons in Barcelona extirpate a tumour in a 5 year old child using 3D model
A team of surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in the Catalan capital successfully removed a tumour from a five year old child by first preparing and practicing the “highly complex” procedure on a 3D printed tumour. The child had neuroblastoma, a difficult cancer to extirpate because of the surrounding blood vessels and arteries. In such cases, testing the procedure in advance "is key" because it allows surgeons to study the most effective way of extracting the tumour without damaging other tissues, and to test the method before surgery. This has been possible thanks to the use of a 3D replica of the tumour.
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Catalan doctors help a patient become the first woman in the world with no ovaries to get pregnant
Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Greater Barcelona has become the first facility in the world to assist a woman who lost her two ovaries to get pregnant. A decade ago she had to have her ovaries completely removed because of two tumours. Ovarian tissue was frozen, kept for ten years and now re-implanted. The patient has had her period again and, thanks to in vitro fertilisation, is now pregnant.