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Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« on: December 18, 2008, 08:10:19 AM »
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A pediatric neurosurgeon says a tumor he removed from the brain of a Colorado Springs infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts.

Dr. Paul Grabb said he operated on Sam Esquibel at Memorial Hospital for Children after an MRI showed a microscopic tumor on the newborn's brain. Sam was 3 days old and otherwise healthy.

Grabb said that while removing the growth, he discovered it contained a nearly perfect foot and the formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh.

"It looked like the breach delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain," Grabb said. "To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of."

Grabb isn't sure what caused the growth but says it may have been a type of congenital brain tumor. However, such tumors usually are less complex than a foot or hand, he said.

The growth may also have been a case of "fetus in fetu" — in which a fetal twin begins to form within another — but such cases very rarely occur in the brain, Grabb said.

Sam's parents, Tiffnie and Manuel Esquibel, said their son is at home now but faces monthly blood tests to check for signs of cancer or regrowth, along with physical therapy to improve the use of his neck. But they say he has mostly recovered from the Oct. 3 surgery.

"You'd never know if he didn't have a scar there," Tiffnie Esquibel said.

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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2008, 08:41:05 AM »
teratoma, I think it's called.
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2008, 09:20:25 AM »
Stephen King did it better in The Dark Half.  I think the guy's brain had an eye and some teeth in it...
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2008, 10:36:03 AM »
Poor kid, probably can't stop his thoughts from running.

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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2008, 11:41:27 AM »
Aunt Voula: [to Ian's parents] Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2008, 03:00:22 PM »
Not uncommon.  Teeth and hair are quite common inside tumors as I understand.  Though I would imagine something fully formed (ever if, I'm guessing, deformed) to be a considerable oddity.
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2008, 03:58:38 PM »
<Ahnold voice>It's naht ah toomah its ah... foot?</Ahnold voice>
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2008, 04:17:38 PM »
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Aunt Voula: [to Ian's parents] Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.

If you are going to quote My Big, Fat Greek Wedding around here, you have to man up and give the citation.

I had to sit through that movie, so everyone else who had to is going to have to admit it as well.
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2008, 04:22:12 PM »
heck, my wife's family is Orthodox Christian

I live that movie daily (with a carpatho-russian twist)
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2008, 04:28:32 PM »
Quote from: El Tejon on December 18, 2008, 04:17:38 PM
If you are going to quote My Big, Fat Greek Wedding around here, you have to man up and give the citation.

I had to sit through that movie, so everyone else who had to is going to have to admit it as well.

I watched it with my wife.  It wasn't too bad, certainly better than many other movies she's subjected me to in the past.

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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2008, 04:40:01 PM »
Wasn't that bad?

And you jab at Jamis for being whipped? 

It was awful with the whining and the crying and the memememememe all day long.
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2008, 05:05:49 PM »
Hmmm...some people really could be D*ckheads. 
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2008, 07:16:54 PM »
Actually Tejon it reminded me of my family  :O
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2008, 07:26:59 PM »
There's a rumor, of a tumor...
 
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Re: Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2008, 10:48:34 PM »
Athena?
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