BBC NEWS | Health | Womb surgery 'saves baby's leg'

BBC NEWS | Health | Womb surgery 'saves baby's leg': "Australian surgeons saved the leg of an unborn baby by operating when her mother was just 22 weeks pregnant.

The surgery was carried out after the foetus developed a rare condition in which stray bands of tissue wrap around limbs and cut off blood flow.

Melbourne's Monash Medical Centre used lasers to cut away the tissue from the left leg, but left the right leg as the bands were too deeply embedded.

The baby was born in January and is now doing well after plastic surgery.

Doctors believe the little girl, called Leah, will eventually be able to walk on both feet."