Baby Born with foot in brain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7791321.stm

US 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.

It may also have been a type of congenital brain tumour.

But such growths are usually are less complex than a foot or hand, the doctors added.

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That must have been just plain weird even for medical staff. Glad the baby is ok though

That sounds like something out of low-budget horror film. I hope nobody tells the little boy, it would be such a strange thing to deal with, his twin brother's feet inside his head.