A nine-year-old girl has become the first child in Hong Kong to receive liver surgery through a procedure that limits incisions on the skin, allowing a speedier recovery and less scarring.The operation, called laparoscopy and done by doctors at Queen Mary Hospital in late March, was conducted on the girl who had liver cancer, a rare condition in children. It was also the world’s first case in which the medical dye indocyanine green (ICG) was used in such a procedure to trace the tumour.The girl…
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