“I didn’t even know what that was,” Kristin toldPeopleon Monday (October 7). “So I was freaking out.”
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They traveled 245 miles (approximately 394 kilometers) from home to meet Dr. Ahmed Nassr, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and fetal surgeon at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women,Peoplereported.
Dr. Nassr explained that the tumor was “very rare” and that it occurs in girls more often than boys, in addition to being usually benign.
A benign tumor isn’t a malignant (cancerous) tumor. It grows more slowly than a cancerous tumor, has even borders and, unlike cancerous tumors, it won’t spread to other parts of your body, theCleveland Clinicexplains.
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In most cases, doctors don’t know why it happens, as Dr. Nassr toldPeople: “It’s just bad luck.” Moreover, the tumors can grow very large.
Born at 34 weeks, Adalida Tyler survived a 16-centimeter sacrococcygeal teratoma tumor
“I was very scared,” the 23-year-old mother-of-two toldPeople. “After so manydoctorappointments and seeing it on the ultrasound, it was scary.”
Kristin had kept the situation shielded from friends andfamily, as she recalled: “There was nobody for me to reach out to talk about it. It felt like we were in the dark.”
He toldPeople: “It was a big tumor, that’s why we were so worried. “We needed to be very careful during delivery.
Sacrococcygeal teratoma occurs in one in every 20,000 births and appears more often on girls than boys
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Two days later, a pediatric surgery team was able to remove the tumor successfully, and Adalida went home from thehospitalon her due date, June 29,Peoplereported.
“There were so many people that loved her. I’m so grateful.” When Adalida is between two and three years old, the family will return to Texas Children’s forcosmetic surgery, as perPeople.
In the process of removing the tumor from the bottom of Adalida’s spine, a completely flat surface was left, as Kristin explained: “So it was almost her whole butt.”
Consequently, plastic surgeons will reconstruct Adalida’s bottom and “make her look more like everybody else.”
While sacrococcygeal teratoma is extremely rare, it is the most common tumor found in newborns.
Back in 2022, little Saylor Thomson was born in Queensland, Australia, with the life-threatening tumor, which was “so huge that it weighed twice as much as the rest of her body,”ABC Newsreported.
On May 21, at 34 weeks, Kristin Tyler delivered Adalida via C-section
Mater maternal-fetal medicine specialist Sailesh Kumar said Saylor could have died during the birth if the tumor, identified during a routine scan inpregnancy, had burst.
Pediatric surgeon Peter Borzi said the tumor had grown into Saylor’s abdomen and mushroomed into a big mass outside her body.
Adalida was born with the dreaded four-pound tumor, nearly two-thirds of her body weight
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“The longer you left this tumor, the more likely it was to start to ulcerate and bleed and get infected,” Dr. Borzi toldABC News.
Saylor reportedly required five blood transfusions during the intricate six-hour operation at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.
“There were tubes everywhere. When they put her on me, they then had to clip parts of the ventilator and tubing onto my dress so they were held in the right spot,” Rachel toldABC News.
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