A large tumor was removed from a newborn baby in Kazan Children’s Republic Clinical Hospital. In this respect informs Telegram channel Mash Iptash.
The baby underwent the first operation, even while in the womb, the fetus was diagnosed with a rapidly growing neoplasm, teratoma. The pregnant woman was at first under medical supervision in Yekaterinburg and came to her home in Kazan to give birth.
After a series of consultations with doctors at the federal center, the Kazan Children’s Clinical Hospital doctors decided to remove the tumor for the newborn at home.
Four weeks after birth, the child was operated on, a one-kilogram tumor was successfully removed. The baby is now under the supervision of doctors and is in the process of recovery.
Teratoma is an embryonic cell tumor diagnosed mainly in children of the first years of life. As a rule, it proceeds in a benign form, but requires timely treatment, because the older the child, the greater the risk of developing a malignant process.
Formerly Rostov doctors removed a baby has a tumor weighing 1.6 kg.