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4-yr-old gets laser to break up stone in Pancreas

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"I never realised that whenever I was forcing her to eat, the pain was getting triggered," she said.
Kavya had to be brought to a hospital in Mumbai in Dec to undergo a corrective procedure and has been doing well. thereafter. "She is among the youngest children in the state to undergo an endoscopic procedure combined with a lithotripsy-like procedure to pulverize the stones in the pancreas," said gastroenterologist Dr Amit Maydeo from H N Reliance Hospital, Girgaum. Lithotripsy is an ultrasound- based technique to break up kidney stones, and is often referred to as laser treatment.

Portal: Times Of India 

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