Doctors reattach boy’s head after car accident thanks to ‘amazing’ surgeryBy Peter Aitken, Fox News
July 13, 2023
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike, the Jerusalem hospital announced this week.
Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered what is known as an internal decapitation, with his skull detached from the top vertebrae of his spine – officially known as a bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation, according to The Times of Israel.
He was riding his bike when a car hit him. The boy was rushed to Hadassah Medical Center and immediately put him into surgery in the trauma unit.
The doctors said his head was “almost completely detached from the base of his neck.”
Dr. Ohad Einav, the orthopedic specialist who led the operation, said the procedure took several hours and required the doctors to use “new plates and fixations in the damaged area.”
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The operation occurred in June, but doctors waited a month to announce the results.
The hospital recently discharged Hassan with a cervical splint and will continue to monitor his recovery.
“The fact that such a child has no neurological deficits or sensory or motor dysfunction and that he is functioning normally and walking without an aid after such a long process is no small thing,” Einav said.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/13/doctors-reattach-boys-head-after-car-accident/
