Cancer treatment -- in particular, cranial radiation -- can also impair cognitive functioning, experts say.

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She will have cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February, the hospital's trust said.

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The schoolgirl is due to undergo cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February.

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Among the hits: a Hepatitis B vaccine, a treatment for inter-cranial aneurysms and a bovine growth hormone.

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Hernandez, who lost one eye and suffered major sight loss in the other, underwent cranial reconstruction surgery.

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The soft palate is controlled by cranial nerves in other words, nerves that do not pass through the spinal cord.

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Only her skin and soft cranial tissues stand between the outside world and her brain, and that's not enough.

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If necessary, they'll also use an intra-cranial pressure monitor inserted into brain tissue, doctors at the Tucson hospital said.

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Given that 17 of the burials were children between five months and 16 years old, it's suspected that the cranial deformation itself was responsible for the deaths.

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Rapid-prototyping machines have, for example, shortened the casting process for facial and cranial plates used in reconstructive surgery, says Robin Richards at the department of medical physics at University College, London.

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