Surgical tumor from the womb

Jackson Memorial Hospital surgeons in Florida performed a complicated operation: They successfully separated a malignant tumor around the mouth of a child since its birth , Russian Diversant newspaper said.

The doctors said this was a very unique surgery because the tumor was detected during the fetal resonance scan of a woman who had been pregnant for 17 weeks. They informed their future mother Tammy Gonzales that according to the diagnosis, the child in her abdomen had a rare type of cancer called oral teratoma.

Leyna Gonzales was healthy at the recent press conference.

The disease is so rare that according to statistics about 20 years around the world, people meet only once and patients have almost no chance of survival. They asked her to accept the surgery to leave her to save her mother and she agreed.

Doctors local anesthesia for pregnant women. They used a special needle to puncture the amniotic membrane and instead of cutting the fetus to get the baby out as expected, they used a laser knife to separate the tumor from the patient's body that was still in the womb and then sewn. again. The very strange laparoscopic surgery was done quickly in about 1 hour.

Little girl Leyna Gonzales was rescued and was born normally but the hospital followed up very often. At that time in October 2010, people quietly took care of her. Now that she is 1 year and 9 months old, she is still healthy and well-developed as any other child, no observation of any recurrence of the tumor, the doctors believe that she has been able to live, so it is announced. before public.

Now she only has a small scar around her mouth, waiting for her to grow up a bit, they will make her a plastic surgery too. Leyna Gonzales has become the youngest patient to have surgery when it is not yet born.