Miami (USA), 21 jun (EFE).-American doctors removing a tumor in the mouth of one girl when I was in the womb of his mother through a guided by ultrasound Endoscope, in what is considered is the first surgery of this type.

surgeons fetal from the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital, Ruben Quintero and Eftichia Kontopoulos, reported today that little more than one hour operation carried out in 2010 and managed to cut the tumor to the fetus with a laser while the mother was under anesthesia local

“under local anesthesia we are entering the uterus, in the bag of water, we saw where it was the tumor of the baby, inside the mouth, and with a laser cut and eliminate”, Quintero stated to journalists.

the girl, Leyna Mykaella González, has now 20 months, was born healthy and a small scar in the mouth is the only sign of his surgery.

their parents, Tammy and Alain González, said felt “fortunate” to have received help from doctors because they saved the life of Leyna.

the mother of the child said that he noticed through an ultrasound images what seemed to be a ball coming out of the mouth of your baby, then the doctors told her that her daughter had an oral teratoma, a tumor that was growing up in the oral cavity, and that when it was operated was the size of a ball of tennis.

the doctors told him that there was little chance of your child to survive birth and if it was born alive, would have to make an emergency tracheotomy so that you could breathe, and that would then need several surgeries.

women didn’t want to interrupt her pregnancy and sought the help of Quintero, a fetal surgeon from world renowned for being pioneer in fetal medicine and who specializes in correcting congenital malformations and high-risk conditions of babies in gestation, according to the Jackson Memorial.

“doctors explained that the options were not good. A 17 weeks I began to feel that the girl gave me kicks and I thought that I had to save it”, said Tammy Gonzalez.

Quintero explained that the condition that the girl had is rare and occurs in 1 out of 100,000 babies since a cell multiplies so uncontrollable.

“if he does not die the baby inside the womb can be come to term, but you have to do a c-section the mother and in that process we must gain access to the airway of the baby that can make you die in that procedure”, said the specialist.

case was recently published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynäkologie als erstes seiner Art. EFE