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Doctors at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where Mahala Yousafzai was flown for treatment from Pakistan, said the bullet which struck her just above her left eye had grazed the edge of her brain.
They said that she was "not out the woods yet" because of an infection but if all went well she should make a full recovery.
Speaking outside the hospital, its medical director, Dr Dave Rosser, told reporters: "It's clear that Malala is not out of the woods yet.
"Having said that, she is doing very well. In fact she was standing with some help for the first time this morning when I went in to see her."
Dr Rosser said she was able to communicate in writing and could "potentially make a full recovery".
He said she is unable to talk due to having a tracheotomy tube inserted but is communicating with staff in Urdu and English, apparently by writing notes.
She is asking me on her behalf to thank people for their support, he said.
He said she was likely to undergo reconstructive surgery in a couple of weeks and was fortunate to survive the bullet wound.
The bullet braised the edge of her brain. If you are talking a couple of inches more centrally, it probably is almost certainly an insurmountable injury, he told the Evening Standard.
Staff at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, where she has been treated since Monday, said "she has potential to make pretty much a full recovery".
She was shot 10 days ago on a school bus in revenge for her outspoken criticism of Taliban policies banning women from having an education.
Experts said today that the Taliban warlord believed to have ordered the killing did so to boost his fearsome reputation.
Mullah Fazlullah is notorious throughout the Swat valley in Pakistan for his campaign against womens education and is responsible for the execution of villagers, police and soldiers.
Pakistani authorities have put a $1 million (£620,000) bounty on his head.
Fazlullah is in his thirties and is known as Mullah Radio for broadcasting rants against the Pakistani government, music, education and the polio vaccine.
He has been hunted by US troops for years, weakening his chain of command and prompting him to flee into Konar province in Afghanistan three years ago.
Because of his long record of violence and civilian executions, he is a priority target for Nato forces.
Between 2007 and 2009, Fazlullahs fighters blew up hundreds of schools, beheaded villagers, flogged women, killed soldiers and policemen, and forced the exodus of more than a million residents.
He had 10,000 men at his command and allowed al Qaeda to use his training camps.
But a crackdown by the Pakistani army in the Swat valley destroyed his power base and left him able to target only the most vulnerable such as Malala, who wrote a BBC diary describing life under the shadow of the Taliban and defending womens right to an education.
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Schoolgirl shot by Taliban stands up in hospital amid hopes of a full recovery - Telegraph