How Montreal surgeons disassembled and joined the skull of a young hydrocephalus patient

On November 5, a pediatric team led by Dr. Alexander Weil and Dr. Daniel Borsuk performed a 12-hour operation on a two-year-old girl with hydrocephalus at CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal. They cut the child's scalp from ear to ear, removed his skull into pieces, drained nearly two quarts of fluid from his brain and joined his skull like a child's wooden puzzle, rebuilding his head to make it smaller . Watch the video above to see how they performed the innovative operation and read the full feature to read the full feature.