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Rare surgery on baby

Published November 29, 2008, 12:30 am, New Kerala

Coimbatore, Nov 29 : In what is claimed to be a rare surgery, a city-based hospital successfully removed a stone from bile duct through ERCP (Endoscopy) and an infected gall bladder using laparascopy from a baby, recently.

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