Dubai hospital completes rare surgery

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A hospital in Dubai has carried out an advanced thyroid surgery for the first time in the UAE.

Doctors at Zulekha Hospital successfully removed a thyroid from a 31-year-old female patient.

The procedure, which was recently introduced in the medical field, removes thyroids without causing scarring to the neck.

Scarring from thyroid procedures had previously been a big problem for patients all over the world.

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