REMARKABLE OPERATION
BOYS LIFE SAVED TACK IN LUNG FOR THREE YEARS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, November 25. , A remarkable operation in the children’s hospital to-day saved the life of a boy aged 10 years, who for three years had a three-quarter-inch tack embedded deep in his right lung. To remove the tack a surgeon had to open the body from the spine round to the centre of tho stomach, thus exposing the lung. The boy had been a frequent patient. It became apparent that if his life were to bo saved the tack must he removed. Preparatory to the operation the lung was collapsed a week ago with air forced in through a tube. The secretary of tho hospital said: “ The operation is the most remarkable we have yet had.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23743, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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130REMARKABLE OPERATION Evening Star, Issue 23743, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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