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Rare surgery performed on infant

CUTTACK: In a rare surgical feat, a team of doctors of SCB Medical College and Hospital here has successfully removed parts of a dead embryo from the abdomen of a two-and-half-month-old baby boy. “Although, such cases are not uncommon it was highly risky to perform such an operation on a three-month old baby,” said hospital superintendent Trilochan Sahu. The baby was now recuperating after the three-hour-long surgery on Wednesday, he said. Born on December 23 in Bhawanipatna of Kalahandi district, the baby had a swollen abdomen since birth. When local doctors could not diagnose the case, the baby was referred to the Cuttack hospital. Initially, the doctors had thought it to be a benign tumor. But they were baffled when they saw an undergrowth embryo, weighing around a kg in the stomach of the baby.

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