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UChicago Medicine surgeons perform 'miraculous' reattachment of 2-year-old's severed spinal cord

With monitors quietly beeping and multiple tubes going into his small body, Oliver Staub lay in a hospital bed as his parents tearfully started saying goodbye. On April 17, an armored car going 70 mph slammed into the family’s minivan during their vacation in Mexico. Everyone in the car was injured, but no one more than Oliver. The impact disconnected the 2-year-old’s head from his spine, resulting in a transection of his spinal cord. Doctors of…
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HOSPITALS MAGAZINE broke the news in on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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