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Huge sacrococcygeal teratomas in the newborn can cause significant morbidity and even death due to cardiac failure, hemorrhage, or both. Surgical removal is the treatment of choice, but can indicate these events. Ligation of the median sacral artery, which always supplies the tumor, prior to its removal has been advocated, but in the past this procedure required a formal laparotomy. Nowadays, it can be easily accomplished laparoscopically, as this case report demonstrates.
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Received: 28 February 1997/Accepted: 28 April 1997
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Bax, N., van der Zee, D. Laparoscopic clipping of the median sacral artery in huge sacrococcygeal teratomas. Surg Endosc 12, 882–883 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649900735
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649900735