A pediatric neurosurgeon said surgery on Brian Lankuts was adequate and appropriate as planned and carried out, but he would not have done the same operation, the ACT Coroners Court yesterday (thurs17sept).
Dr Robert Jones, of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, was called as an expert by Stuart Littlemore, for neurosurgeon Dr Nadana Chandran, maxillary facial and oral surgeon Dr Peter Vickers and plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Alan Ferguson. He was giving evidence into the inquest into Brian Lankuts, who died aged five months on November 21, 1990, after surgery to correct a skull abnormality which threatened to compress his brain.
Dr Jones disagreed with an earlier expert, Dr David David, head of the Australian Cranio-Facial Unit in Adelaide.
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