Nakuru doctors perform historic neck tumour surgery on four-year-old boy

A team of multidisciplinary doctors at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital operate on a four-year-old boy who had the rare glomus vagale tumour [Courtesy]

Doctors at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital have successfully removed a rare abnormal growth in the neck of a four-year-old boy.

First of its kind, the surgery was carried out by a multidisciplinary team of doctors to remove the Glomus Vagale tumour, a growth on one of the nerves on a risky part of the neck.