Malaysian leads Aussies to give boy a new face

MELBOURNE: A Malaysian specialist led a team of four surgeons to remove a disfiguring growth from the face of a seven-year-old Filipino boy at the Monash Children’s Hospital here.

Plastic surgeon Dr James Leong Chin Sek (pic), who is from Kota Baru, said Jhonny Lameon had a severe frontonasal encephalocele, a neural tube defect that resulted in membranous sacs expanding through openings in the skull.