A baby born with a head shaped like a 'pizza slice' has undergone a lifesaving operation to break open his skull and piece it back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Kathleen Torres, 29, from Grafton, Ohio, noticed the unusual shape of her son Caleb's head after he was born, but dismissed it as bruising from the delivery.
The mom-of-four saw that the back of his skull was elongated and rectangular, while his forehead was pointed - just like a pizza slice.
She hoped her son's unusually shaped head would even out over time, but decided to take him for
tests after another mom told Kathleen that her son was suffering with the same kind of symptoms.
At four months old, Caleb was diagnosed with craniosynostosis - a condition where the bones in the skull fuse prematurely before the baby's brain has had chance to fully grow.
Doctors feared that if they didn't perform surgery to reshape her son's head he could be left with permanent brain damage.
Three months ago, neurosurgeons operated on Caleb, where they cracked open his skull, shaved away part of the bone and pieced it back together again just like a jigsaw puzzle.
Now, apart from an s-shaped scar across the top of his head, Caleb, who is nine-months-old, has made a full recovery and it's believed he will not need any more surgery.
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Kathleen Torres, 29, from Grafton, Ohio, noticed the unusual shape of her son Caleb's head after he was born, but dismissed it as bruising from the delivery.
The mom-of-four saw that the back of his skull was elongated and rectangular, while his forehead was pointed - just like a pizza slice.
She hoped her son's unusually shaped head would even out over time, but decided to take him for
tests after another mom told Kathleen that her son was suffering with the same kind of symptoms.
At four months old, Caleb was diagnosed with craniosynostosis - a condition where the bones in the skull fuse prematurely before the baby's brain has had chance to fully grow.
Doctors feared that if they didn't perform surgery to reshape her son's head he could be left with permanent brain damage.
Three months ago, neurosurgeons operated on Caleb, where they cracked open his skull, shaved away part of the bone and pieced it back together again just like a jigsaw puzzle.
Now, apart from an s-shaped scar across the top of his head, Caleb, who is nine-months-old, has made a full recovery and it's believed he will not need any more surgery.
Source - DailyMail.co.uk
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