United States-based Nigerian Surgeon, Dr Oluyinka Olutoye, has achieved a feat by performing a rare surgical operation in carrying out a successful operation on an unborn baby with tumour in her mother’s womb.
Professor Olutoye of Texas Children’s Hospital, alongside his surgical partner carried out the delicate surgery on a 23 weeks old foetus who was removed from the mother’s womb, operated upon and returned to the womb to heal and continue to grow until the baby girl was born at 36 weeks.
Baby Lynlee Hope suffered from a tumour known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma.
Doctors discovered a tumour in the tailbone of Margaret Boemer’s unborn baby when the mother-to-be went for a routine ultrasound just 16 weeks into her pregnancy.
Dr. Olutoye’s success has made headlines in the US.
The Nigerian Government also congratulated him on Monday.
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