St. Petersburg doctors told about a complex operation to a child with a rare tumor

The baby had a tumor that was surrounded by large blood vessels and important organs that could not be damaged. “This is a rare localization of this type of tumor. The difficulty of the operation was that we had to get to it from the back of the spine and from the heart. That is, there are a lot of vital organs in the front, explained the pediatric surgeon treating doctor Varie Kuzmina Arina Syrtsova. In addition, during surgery, it was found that the tumor grew into the aorta. The operation lasted four hours. The child was rescued by five surgeons of different specialties. Earlier it was reported that a rare tumor of the spinal cord was removed 13-year-old Orenburg. The neoplasm completely blocked the lumen of the spinal canal, squeezing the roots of the spinal cord.

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