A multidisciplinary team of 20 doctors from the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City ( SKMC) , Abu Dhabi successfully performed a challenging medical procedure on a baby boy while he was still in his mother’s womb. According to the surgeons at SKMC, this was only for the third time that such a surgery had been conducted in Abu Dhabi. The baby was suffering from a rare congenital anomaly, known as cystic hygroma . In this condition, there is a blockage in the lymphatic system, and this often leads to the development of a fluid-filled sac in the neck or head, or in any parts of the body.
In this case, the baby in utero developed a massive 700 gm cyst on his neck weighing almost 25 percent of the baby’s weight. The cyst was so big that it risked blocking the infant’s airways. This further posed the baby to a high risk of asphyxia post-birth. Therefore, the doctors opted for an Exit surgery in which…
