Niall Jones, paediatric consultant, in the London Evening Standard

Doctors at the Royal London are using specially-designed tools such as forceps and clamps which are only three millimetres wide reports London's Evening Standard. Niall Jones, paediatric consultant at the Royal London, said: "The use of small equipment has a number of advantages over open surgery. For example, we can avoid invasive access into the abdomenThe part of the body that contains the stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder and other organs., which can be quite traumatic for a newborn."

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