Rare surgery

According to literature, less than 100 pregnancies in pregnancy have been reported worldwide. 'Incident' is considered to be this rare presence in our country and successful surgery.

At the National Children's Conference just recently took place in Ho Chi Minh City, doctors said pregnancy during pregnancy is a teratogenic complication that occurs with low frequency in Vietnam and in the world. Pregnancy in pregnancy is distinguished by a special fetal structure.

Doctor Nguyen Van Nghia - Bac Lieu General Hospital - who operated for pregnant women in Bac Lieu to remove a 3.3kg boy, said: After the surgery, doctors found This boy's belly is larger than usual and feels a tumor on his right abdomen.

On March 8, 2006, the doctors conducted an ultrasound examination of the abdomen and found it to be a pregnancy in the fetus, because the spinal structure is almost complete and the length of the thigh bone is measured corresponding to 32 weeks pregnant.

Ultrasound results also show that the small intestine loops are pushed to the left of the pelvic area; Fetal heart is negative, no skull is found, around the structure of the fetus with fluid, the wall is clearly enclosed .

Meanwhile, at a Children's Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City, since 1995, there have been 2 pregnancies in pregnancy. The team of doctors at this hospital found that a 5-month-old boy named TA weighs 7 kg, is the second child in a family in Hau Giang and another 5-month-old case named NTN in Ca Mau province.

Department of chest and hand parasites in pediatric patients in Bac Lieu (Photo: Tienphong)

After hospitalization, tests and ultrasound, doctors discovered that boy A. was pregnant in pregnancy, had a fetus consisting of 3 separated tumor. Block 1 has head, body, extremities, spinal column and male genitalia; block 2, 14 cm long, with head, body, and limb, with incomplete male genitalia; block 3 diameter 7 cm like a small head, with hair, no cartilage bone.

Doctor Dao Trung Hieu - Head of the Department of General Surgery - Children's Hospital 1 said that in the second case, the boy N. has a relatively complete fetal structure, 12x9x7 cm in size, head with hair, spine, stomach and vascular tube, abdomen contains intestine, bladder, penis and limbs with hands, feet with 5 fingers.

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Doctor Nguyen Van Nghia - Bac Lieu General Hospital, said the surgery for a boy in Bac Lieu lasted more than 1 hour and 20 minutes, taking out the parasitic pregnancy weighing 0.8 kg, so far boys have been given good growth. In both cases of fetal pregnancy at Children's Hospital 1 after the surgery, there was no event, discharged after 7 days and developed well.

According to the doctor, pregnancy during pregnancy is a complicated parasitic teratogen. They come from a fertilized ovule, usually with a gill, a placenta but often with a separate amniotic membrane.

Complex teratogens have 2 types, which are complex autonomic teratogenicity, two pregnancies are equivalent in body composition. The second case is a parasitic complicated pregnancy.

This is a less developed fetus and is almost ' sticking ' to the fetus. Pregnancy parasites are considered as a tumor of the fetus, it can be humanoid or there are only a few parts of the body such as thighs, hands, feet, intestines . And can be found in any position of the fetus but more commonly, the retroperitoneal cavity, abdomen and pelvis.

'This is a rare teratogenicity, however during pregnancy pregnant women have to go for regular pregnancy tests to detect' pregnancy parasites' and handle them promptly. At the grassroots level, the pathology can be easily diagnosed, ' Dr. Nguyen Van Nghia said.

Le Nguyen