Baby born with a foot and part of the leg in his brain! Successfully removed.
December 19th, 2008 Posted in Weird News
Surgeons operating on a brain tumour in a baby boy found a tiny foot inside his head.
Picture of foot found in baby Sam Esquibel's brain.
Surgeons operating on a brain tumour in a baby boy found a tiny foot inside his head.
Doctors operated on three-day old Sam Esquibel after finding what looked like a microscopic tumour on an MRI scan.
But while removing the growth, they also found a nearly perfect foot and the partial formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh.
The growth may have been a case of “foetus in foetu” in which a twin begins to form within its sibling.
However, the team at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs said such cases very rarely occur in the brain.
From BBC News
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