Doctor’s used breakthrough surgery to remove a huge, life-threatening tumor off of an unborn baby’s face, and she turned out perfectly normal! click below to read the full story.
When Tammy Gonzales was pregnant, doctors spotted a life-threatening tumor the size of a tennis ball growing on her unborn baby’s face, and doubted the child would survive.
Even if she did, her daughter would have to undergo an immediate tracheotomy just to breathe, and then endure multiple other surgeries.
“It’s the most horrible feeling you could ever imagine — physically, emotionally, mentally,†Gonzales said, according to CBS Miami.
But a miraculous surgery, the first of its kind, saved the life of Lynda Gonzales, who is now 20 months old and “perfectly normal,†according to her mother.
The operation was performed at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital in May 2010 and recently reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It was the world’s first surgery in which doctors successfully removed a tumor from an unborn baby’s face.
Lynda’s tumor developed because of the massive amount of cell development that takes place while a baby is still in the womb, according to the station.
Gonzales was in her 17th week of pregnancy when Dr. Ruben Quintero and Dr. Eftichia Kontopoulous performed the highly complicated, in utero procedure.
