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AP Health
2-Pound Tumor Taken From Newborn's Neck
By Associated Press
April 28, 2007, 1:13 AM EDT
DENVER --
Doctors removed a 2-pound tumor from
the back of a newborn's neck and the baby girl
appeared to be doing fine a day after she was born,
her parents said.
An ultrasound detected the fast-growing,
grapefruit-sized tumor on Monday during mother Kari
Whittington's visit to her doctor's office. No
abnormalities were detected in the previous
ultrasound a month earlier. Her daughter, Addison, was delivered by Caesarean
section Thursday, five weeks premature, and
stabilized before a nine-person surgical team started
working on her.
"The mass itself started to spontaneously bleed ..."
pediatric surgeon Steven Rothenberg said Friday. "If
we'd been short one pair of hands, she wouldn't have
made it."
Rothenberg said the growth, called a cervical
teratoma, is rare and occurs in about 1 in 50,000
births. The blood-swollen tissue and veins made up
40 percent of Addison's weight.
"It was definitely overwhelming," Whittington, 28,
told the Rocky Mountain News. "Everything
happened so quickly."
Addison could be hospitalized for up to two weeks.
The scar on her neck and along her jaw line should
disappear over time, Rothenberg said.
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