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Doctors diagnosed girl's ‘vacant’ expression as epilepsy but it was actually brain tumour

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A schoolgirl has opened up about her battle with a rare brain tumour which left her with a “vacant” expression which doctors mistakenly thought was epilepsy.

Maisie Dury, now 16, from St Andrews, Fife in Scotland, first began displaying signs that something wasn’t right when she was just two-and-a-half years old.

The youngster's parents noticed she would often sit with a ‘vacant’ expression on her face and began suffering from terrifying seizures, Daily Record reports.

They sought medical advice from their GP who referred them to a specialist but warned that she could face a three month wait as her case was "not urgent".

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