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.
The patient, Cooper Kilburn from Adamsville, Tennessee, was diagnosed by ultrasound at 16 weeks with congenital…
