Meet The Nigerian Doctor Who Removed Baby, Operated On Her And Returned Her To Mother's Womb | Health
He came to international attention when he led a team of medical practitioners to perform surgery on a baby in-utero in a Texas hospital in 2016 and now Oluyinka O. Olutoye, MD, PhD, has been appointed Surgeon-In-Chief at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the U.S. Olutoye co-led a team of 21 doctors that removed a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumour that grows on the tailbone of a fetus, and then returned the 23-week-old fetus to the mother’s womb to world acclaim. For the surgery, the mother and fetus were given general anaesthesia and the part of the fetus’ body where the tumou...
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