Brain tumor woman was undeveloped twin Bashny.Net

Graduate student from India Yamini Karanam moved to Indianapolis to study computer science, but at some point it became difficult to learn. It ceased to understand simple article, the word friends were confused in her head, and in the end it became a miss work and suffer from headaches. Found the cause - a tumor in the central part of the brain, which some neurologists and neurosurgeons considered inoperable.

You can put an end to it one way or another? God, doctors, anyone. Wrote Karanam in his blog on March 15. I> blockquote> Only one doctor, Hrayr Shahinian, practicing radical surgery on the brain through a hole in the skull of patients in Los Angeles, took the most complicated operation. And what he found there was no simple tumor: it was a bunch of bones, teeth and hair.

This is one of those cases where the main problem - not a diagnosis, but a search for the person who will undertake the work - as when a man saved thanks to his wife of 3D Print .

Yamini financially helped her friend collected by platform Giveforward about $ 34 million.

Shahinian made a tiny incision in the back of the head girl endoscope passed through the skull and into the natural channel in the brain reached the tumor, where he made a startling discovery: it's not a tumor, and teratoma, a clot of bones, hair and teeth.

Teratoma - undeveloped twins, grown into the child's body. Sometimes children are born with adherent to them such clots, and sometimes - adults "give birth" in the style of the movie "Aliens", as was the case with 30-year-old Briton Gavin Hite. Earlier this year in Hong Kong родилась girl with two partially developed, the fruits.

Shahinian has successfully conducted the operation. The surgeon said that this is his second surgery to remove the teratoma, and a total score of 7-8, he removed a brain tumor.

In the интервью NBC 4 girl said that it was her "evil twin sister, who tortured me 26 years." Yamini opened blog , which plans to tell his story.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249472/