Physical examination performed by an endocrinologist after the removal of the sacrococcygeal tumor revealed the thyroid gland to be normal in size and contour, freely mobile, without palpable ...

Doctors diagnosed the couple's unborn baby girl with a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a one-in-27,000 tumor that forms during pregnancy in the baby's tailbone. Mrs Tyler, 23, said: 'I was very scared.