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Difficult to view: A baby was born with a 12 cm long tail - and underwent a resection
Doctors at the Children's Hospital in Brazil have surgically removed the baby's unusual tail, which reaches 12 cm and ends with a strange fleshy ball. This is only the 40th case recorded in the world. Caution - the pictures are difficult to view
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Monday, 08 November 2021, 23:25
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The boy born with an 18 cm long tail (Photo: From the YouTube page Barcroft TV, Editing: Gadi Winstock)
Doctors at the Albert Sabine Pediatric Hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil, were shocked to see a baby born with a real 12cm long tail - one of the only 40 cases of this rare birth defect ever recorded. After an ultrasound scan, experts decided to remove its long human tail - The
birth and tail removal surgery have been documented and published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. The tail, and only rarely the tail continues to
grow.What makes this tail so special is that it did not contain cartilage or bone, making it a "real human tail", it was reported. , According to the journal.
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(Photo: Screenshot, Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports)
According to the report, the baby was born at 35 weeks to a healthy mother after a normal pregnancy.
The baby's tail was his only complication, and he was not found in tests performed before birth.
Only after an ultrasound scan did the doctors confirm that the tail is not connected to the baby's nervous system, meaning it can be surgically removed.
It is not known if the baby experienced pain during surgery or if the tail was removed at the parents' request.
The tail was surgically removed (Photo: Screenshot, Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports)
As a souvenir?
(Photo: Screenshot, Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports)
After its removal, doctors discovered that the ball at the tip of the tail, 4 cm in diameter, was made of fat and embryonic connective tissue. The tail itself was made of only boneless tissue. This is happening.It is
estimated that the prehistoric apes lost their tails about 25 million years ago.One theory claims that the loss of the tail came after a genetic mutation that also helped improve erectile mobility.
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