local6.com - News - Baby Recovering After Doctors Perform Rare Anal Surgery: "5:50 a.m. EST November 19, 2003
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- A Texas baby is recovering Tuesday, one day after doctors at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park created an anal opening for him.
Chief of Pediatric Surgery Dr. Alberto Pena performed the rare anorectal surgery on the 10-month-old baby boy Monday. The operation was teleconferenced live to Hadassah Hospital in Israel, where about 80 surgeons from Israel, Greece, Turkey and Italy watched.
Pena developed the procedure and has done about 1,700 anorectal surgeries since 1986.
He says the problem is a birth defect in which the anus and rectum do not develop properly. This type of malformation affects one in 5,000 newborns annually.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press."
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