ISSN:
1432-2218
Keywords:
Key words: Sacrococcygeal teratoma — Median sacral artery ligation — Laparoscopy — Newborn
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract. Huge sacrococcygeal teratomas in the newborn can cause significant morbidity and even death due to cardiac failure, hemorrhage, or both. Surgical removal is the treatment of choice, but can indicate these events. Ligation of the median sacral artery, which always supplies the tumor, prior to its removal has been advocated, but in the past this procedure required a formal laparotomy. Nowadays, it can be easily accomplished laparoscopically, as this case report demonstrates.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004649900735
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