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Austin hospital achieves city’s first in utero fetal surgery

Dell Children’s Medical Center said it completed the region’s first in utero neural tube defect surgery treating myelomeningocele, which is a form of spina bifida.

15 October 2026Live

Sources

KXAN Austin. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-hospital-achieves-citys-first-in-utero-fetal-surgery/

Dell Children’s Medical Center said it completed the region’s first in utero neural tube defect surgery treating myelomeningocele, which is a form of spina bifida.

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