- Strategy of providing specialized surgical care to a newborn with congenital oral cavity tumor complicated by upper airway obstruction
Strategy of providing specialized surgical care to a newborn with congenital oral cavity tumor complicated by upper airway obstruction
Strategy of providing specialized surgical care to a newborn with congenital oral cavity tumor complicated by upper airway obstruction
Sliepov O. K., Hordiienko I. Yu., Korotchenko H. M., Karavanov D. V., Serhiienko A. V., Ponomarenko O. P., Mihur M. Yu., Kurinnyi S. I.
SI Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Children’s Clinical Hospital No 7, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv Municipal Clinical Hospital No 17, Ukraine
The article presents a clinical case of successful surgical treatment of a newborn with congenital oral cavity tumor (Abrikosov’s tumor) complicated by upper airway obstruction. Congenital malformation was diagnosed prenatally, and there was developed a strategy of providing specialized care for a child in the first seconds of life. Surgical treatment was performed in the first minutes of life. Suggested treatment strategy appeared to be effective and made it possible to save the life of a child.
Key words: congenital epulis (Abrikosov’s tumor), upper airway obstruction, nasotracheal intubation, surgical treatment.
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