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Mum's heartbreak as 'cheerful' toddler dies after brain tumour surgery goes wrong

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A toddler has died after surgery to remove a large brain tumour tragically went wrong. Grieving mum Nicole Harrigan described how "cheerful" 17-month-old Sylas had stopped smiling and she and husband Nils initially believed he was teething.

He then began struggling to settle at night and being sick as well as suffering other odd symptoms, including lack of balance.

Following multiple incorrect diagnoses and with the child's health failing to improve, tests revealed a golf ball-sized tumour, reports YorkshireLive.

Several operations were undertaken to save Sylas' life, with procedures to remove excess fluid and half of the tumour a success - before a third went devastatingly awry.

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