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Article: PRENATAL DIAGNOSES HOLD HOPE FOR NEWBORNS ... NEW FETAL SURGERY, THERAPIES SAVING BABIES.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1986
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Byline: Combined wire services
In a pioneering operation, a team of California surgeons partially removed a fetus from its mother's womb, corrected a bladder problem and returned it to its previous position, where it developed until birth nine weeks later, the doctors reported Tuesday.
The baby is now a smiling, walking 1-year-old, the longest survivor of such an operation, according to doctors at the University of California at San Francisco. They said it was only the third such open-womb surgery since the first one was performed in 1981.
The most recent surgery was performed on June 22, 1985, by Dr. Michael Harrison, a pediatric surgeon at the ...
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