Paralympic handbike champ Alex Zanardi on Monday had his third operation after suffering critical head injuries in a crash near Siena last month.
The five-hour op was aimed at "the cranio-facial reconstruction and the stabilization of the areas affected by the trauma suffered in the June 19 accident," hospital sources said.
Sources said Zanardi's condition "remains stable from the cardio-respiratory and metabolic standpoint, and serious from the neurological standpoint".
Facial surgery chief Paolo Gennaro said "the fractures were complex" but they were "of a type we have to deal with routinely".
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