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.
![Surgeons in Kyrgyzstan made a startling discovery when they removed a large mass from an eight-year-old girl's brain: a three-foot-long lock of hair. The hair had grown over the girl's lifetime, posing a serious health risk if left untreated.](https://needtoknow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stunned-surgeons-remove-3ft-long-lock-of-hair-from-eight-year-olds-BRAIN-2-768x1024.webp)
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.
![Surgeons in Kyrgyzstan made a startling discovery when they removed a large mass from an eight-year-old girl's brain: a three-foot-long lock of hair. The hair had grown over the girl's lifetime, posing a serious health risk if left untreated.](https://needtoknow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stunned-surgeons-remove-3ft-long-lock-of-hair-from-eight-year-olds-BRAIN-808x1024.webp)
“The continued growth of the hair would have posed a threat to the patient’s health.”
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