Parents share infant’s journey with rare birth defect

Niyant Patel, MD, pediatric craniofacial surgeon at Akron Children's, discusses the case of one-year-old Wesley McDonald, Louisville, who was treated at the hospital's Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center for craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bones in a baby's skull join together too early.

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