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Doctors Perform Miracle By Eliminating Baby's Tumor Inside Womb Without Surgery
- •Chinese doctors successfully eliminated a fatal lung tumor in an unborn fetus inside the mother's womb without making any surgical incisions.
- •The unborn baby suffered from CPAM, a rare congenital condition causing abnormal lung tissue development that can be life-threatening.
- •Doctors used innovative microwave ablation technology, passing a fine needle through the mother's abdomen to transmit heat and destroy the tumor from within.
- •Within three days of the procedure, the tumor significantly shrank and fluid accumulation in the baby's abdomen completely disappeared.
- •A healthy baby weighing approximately 2.9 kg was successfully delivered via Caesarean section at the 37th week of pregnancy.
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CPAM, or Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation, is a lung tumor that develops in unborn fetuses during womb development. While typically not fatal, it can grow rapidly, compress the heart and lungs, and cause dangerous fluid accumulation in the abdomen.
Chinese doctors used a minimally invasive microwave ablation technique. They guided a fine needle through the mother's abdomen into the fetus's lung tumor, transmitting microwave energy that vibrated water molecules, generated intense heat, and destroyed the tumor from within.
Within three days of the treatment, the tumor significantly shrank and the accumulated abdominal fluid completely disappeared. A healthy baby weighing about 2.9 kg was subsequently born via Caesarean section at the 37th week of pregnancy.
