Stunned surgeons have removed a lock of hair from an eight-year-old girl’s brain.
The patient, identified only as T.A., from Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad Region, was taken in for surgery after a scan revealed a large mass in her brain’s fourth ventricle.
Dr Mitalip Mamytov and his team successfully operated on her at Jal Hospital in Bishkek.
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The medics were stunned when they realised the mass was made up of hair.
A post-op snap shows them holding up the lock for the camera, which appears to be about three feet long.
They believe it grew over the girl’s lifetime, as reported on Need To Know.
The Kyrgyz Ministry of Health said in a statement: “The neoplasm contained a tuft of hair that had apparently grown over the child’s entire life before admission to the hospital.
“The hair had a root at the bottom of the ventricle and may have been caused by an anomaly in prenatal development.
“The continued growth of the hair would have posed a threat to the patient’s health.”
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