Burdwan (WB), November 12: A four-kg tumour was removed from the abdomen of a four-month-old baby girl at a government hospital here yesterday.
A team of six doctors led by paediatric surgeon Naren Mukherjee took four hours to remove the tumour from the baby at the Burdwan Medical College Hospital.
Mukherjee said, the girl, Chhoti Kumari of Jharkhand’s Palujora area, was born with the tumour which was gradually increasing in size.
She was admitted to the hospital a week ago when her weight was 7.8 kg.
After the operation, which is medically known as sacrococcygeal teratoma, the child was well, he said.
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumour that develops before birth and grows from a baby’s coccyx, commonly known as the ‘tailbone’. The tumour grows outward from the back or toward the child’s stomach.
The child was born to Adhir Bhandari, a barber by profession and Debanti Bhandari.
–PTI