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Le Bonheur docs make medical history with voice box/airway reconstruction

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In a medical first, a toddler born without an airway and without a voice box now has both thanks to a surgery pioneered at Memphis’ Le Bonheur Children’s Research Hospital. Dr. Jerome Thompson, an otolaryngologist with Le Bonheur and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, led a team of doctors who used two of the patient’s ribs to create a voice box and a viable airway.

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