Zig-zag scar reveals 5-year-old’s battle to survive: Boy has his skull taken apart and pieced back together like a jigsaw to stop it crushing his brain

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A little boy had his skull taken apart and pieced back together just like a jigsaw to stop it from crushing his brain.

Leo Hutchinson, five, from Cardiff, was born with a rare condition, known as sagittal craniosynostosis, that caused his skull to fuse together and press on his vital organ, which can cause blindness or severe brain damage if untreated.

The youngster was just seven months old when he endured his first nine-hour operation that involved taking out ‘every bit of skull’ and ‘cutting it into pieces’.

A second procedure required Leo be fit with Frankenstein-like bolts that his mother had to twist every day to relieve pressure on his head.  

Although Leo is recovering well, he has been left with a zig-zag scar across his scalp. 

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