Wednesday, March 11, 2009

As maravilhas da medicina

Fonte: aqui.

A seven-year-old girl has survived a surgery procedure which required doctors to remove six of her vital organs. Doctors at New York Presbyterian Hospital removed Heather McNamara's pancreas, liver, spleen, stomach and small and large intestines in order to extract a tennis ball-sized cancerous tumour before the organs were re-implanted.