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 Updated 2150 GMT (0550 HKT) October 20, 2016
By Susan Scutti, CNN
Baby removed from womb for surgery, then returned 01:18
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At 23 weeks, LynLee Hope underwent a crucial operation and was returned to her mother's womb
LynLee healed and continued to grow until she was born at 36 weeks
(CNN) — Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.
"They saw something on the scan, and the doctor came in and told us that there was something seriously wrong with our baby and that she had a sacrococcygeal teratoma," the Plano, Texas, mom said in an interview shared by Texas Children's Hospital. "And it was very shocking and scary, because we didn't know what that long word meant or what diagnosis that would bring."
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor that develops before birth and grows from a baby's coccyx, the tailbone.
"This is the most common tumor we see in a newborn," said Dr. Darrell Cass, co-director of Texas Children's Fetal Center and associate professor of surgery, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College Medicine. "Even though it's the most common we see, it's still pretty rare."
Found more often in girls than boys, this tumor occurs in one out of every 35,000 births.
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