to the lower back of a patient
A medical team at King Fahd Hospital in Madinah at the Department of Plastic Surgery headed by the consultant Dr. Saleh Abdul Qadir Khawaja has succeeded in carrying out a rare surgery of its kind for a 26-year-old Saudi patient who suffers from a congenital anomaly with a third foot attached to the lower back and is considered a rare case of congenital anomalies. Very congenital malformations of this type which is called "TERATAMA" and the reason for it is due to the occurrence of a congenital malformation of the fetus which is in the process of its development during fetal formation, as well as the inheritance factor in it. This case is considered rare as it occurs between "1- out of every 40 thousand births" and degrees Different and uneven.
This was explained by Dr. Saleh Khawaja, Consultant and Head of Burns and Plastic Surgery Department at King Fahd Hospital in Madinah.
He added that the patient came to the plastic surgery clinic for the purpose of removing the third foot connected to him, and after conducting the necessary tests and rumors for the patient in the hospital, it was found that the congenital malformation tumor should be removed from the lower back of the patient, and the case that we have is rare, especially that the patient has reached 26 years of work, and usually congenital anomalies must be removed. Early in life.
After the operation, Dr. Khawaja indicated that the excised foot is a mass that contains a lower right incision for almost a quarter of the entire body, and also contains half of the pelvic bones, the thigh bone, the two shin bones, and the foot bones, even if they are smaller than normal and somewhat deformed, but they contain the complete formation of the limb Lower.
It also became clear upon autopsy that it contained female genitals atrophied and a cyst that resembled a urinary bladder and a testicle-like.
He said that it was removed with complete success, with the cooperation of the participating medical team, namely Dr. Nasser Musaad, Consultant Neurosurgery, and Dr. Ahmed Abdelghani, Consultant Anesthesiologist, said that the patient recovered quickly after the operation and was in good health.
For his part, Director General of King Fahd Hospital in Madinah, Dr. Abbas bin Ali Qamqamji, indicated that the success of such operations that take place in the hospital is considered a success for all, adding that the patient''s condition improves after the removal of the foot without exposure to the spine.
