Newborn baby had fully-formed limbs inside his brain

foot-in-brain

Sorry for the somewhat gruesome image, but I just found this news story incredibly amazing. Apparrently two and a half months ago, the parents of newborn Sam Esquibel had to subject their 3-day-old baby to surgery to remove what was then believed to be a brain tumor. When doctors looked inside his brain, they found 2 fully formed feet, a hand, and a thigh!

Incredibly, the baby lived past the surgery and is now doing quite well with the help of physical therapy sessions to regain the use of muscles in the neck.

But wow, look at that image! A foot inside the brain!

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  1. viv says:

    AHHHHHHH!!! FEEETTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Maia says:

    I think it must be a case of parasitic twins or something like that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
    It’s like your identical twin, but the diference is that he never developed and it’s attached to (or into) your body. There is an extremely funny South Park episode about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_Fetus_Lady

    Maia
    Bye!

  3. leuh says:

    that is fucking weird.. did u res up this image?

  4. greio says:

    How could this happy omg this is so werid omg i cant belive this

  5. Bianca Hall says:

    aww that is so sad to see a baby with half a head and half a skull i am going through the same thing right now

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