life: Doctors at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center perform a rare and risky procedure on a fetus that was displaying signs of extreme spina bifida. Here, LIFE photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg captures surgeons gently placing the baby’s arm back into the uterus. HIGH RES

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Doctors at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center perform a rare and risky procedure on a fetus that was displaying signs of extreme spina bifida. Here, LIFE photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg captures surgeons gently placing the baby’s arm back into the uterus.

6 months ago on November 22, 2011 at 07:35pm via life
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