Vietnamese doctors remove giant tumor from newborn infant
Doctors in the central city of Hue have successfully removed a 1.7kg tumor from a 20-day-old baby girl.
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The tumor, which measured 5.7 x 12.9 x 16.7 cm, formed in the infant’s pelvis.
The baby’s mother said that the mass was detected by doctors in a hospital in the north-central province of Quang Binh when the fetus was seven months old.
Suffering from severe malnutrition and neonatal infection, the child, weighing 2.6kg (tumor included), was born via C-section, but was then transferred immediately to the Hue Central Hospital for medical treatment before a tumorectomy took place.
The operation was carried out by practitioners from the pediatric surgery – abdominal emergency and anesthesia recovery departments of the hospital.
The successful surgery took three hours and the as yet unnamed baby is showing positive signs of recovery.
