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posted by martyb on Sunday April 26 2015, @05:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the role-reversal:-brain-eats-zombie dept.

Doctors in California have removed a tumor that they described as an "embryologic twin" from deep inside the brain of a woman:

Yamini Karanam, 26, a PhD student in Indiana, had been experiencing difficulties with drowsiness, reading and concentration. The discovery was made when doctors performed a newly-developed form of surgery to remove the tumour. The growth, known as a teratoma[*], had bone and hair.

[...] Some medical experts have questioned whether it could be called a twin, but the doctor told the BBC it was "accurate, technically speaking" to call it an embryologic twin. He added that she would have died if she hadn't had the surgery.

The rare growth was removed using a minimally-invasive "keyhole" surgery that uses fibre-optics to burrow deep into the brain and perform the operation. "Traditionally they would have had to cut her from ear-to-ear, bring the scalp down in the back, and then open up the entire back of the skull," Dr Shahinian said. Instead, the doctor used a half-inch incision in the back of the skull.

[*] Teratoma:

A teratoma is a tumor with tissue or organ components resembling normal derivatives of more than one germ layer. Although the teratoma may be monodermal or polydermal, its cells may differentiate in ways suggesting other germ layers. The tissues of a teratoma, although normal in themselves, may be quite different from surrounding tissues and may be highly disparate; teratomas have been reported to contain hair, teeth, bone and, very rarely, more complex organs or processes such as eyes, torso, and hands, feet, or other limbs.

 
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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @07:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @07:36PM (#175428)

    What do you expect? Women gleefully kill their own babies, castrate men, have men imprisoned, divorce and steal men's life worth.

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday April 27 2015, @04:29PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Monday April 27 2015, @04:29PM (#175763) Journal

    Women gleefully kill their own babies, castrate men, have men imprisoned, divorce and steal men's life worth.

    They are scum often.

    SCUM? [wikipedia.org]

    I only feed trolls bad puns.