COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 18) - 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.

 

'Borderline Unheard of' CaseChristian Murdock, The Gazette / AP2 photos A tumor removed from this baby boy's brain contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts, his doctor said. "To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of," said Dr. Paul Grabb. Here, a physical therapist massages Sam Esquibel's scar at a therapy session in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 11.(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)

 

 

 

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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The Dark Half anyone?

I don't know what to say except 'Big Deal'. :|

I don't know what to say except 'Big Deal'. :|

 

 

 

 

 

What has the world come to when having another person growing inside of someone isn't surprising?

I give it 3 thumbs up.

So... what did they do to the extra body parts?

 

Food?

So... what did they do to the extra body parts?

 

Food?

 

 

 

For Lenin, yes.

Clearly that baby beat it's brother into a bunch of parts while in the womb and then ate the parts. Unfortunately, fetus limbs are cancerous.

Wow :shock: That's quite weird, and astonishing. The chances of that happening are so remote, I would think, that it would never happen again.

If that tumor was undetected, and stayed in to develop, do you think a leg would slowly grow as it got larger?

 

 

 

I think you should disable your pop-up blocker.

 

Even the report is telling you to do so.

If that tumor was undetected, and stayed in to develop, do you think a leg would slowly grow as it got larger?

 

 

 

I think you should disable your pop-up blocker.

 

Even the report is telling you to do so.

 

 

 

What are you going on about?

If that tumor was undetected, and stayed in to develop, do you think a leg would slowly grow as it got larger?

 

Ew, wouldn't it be pretty epic if you had body parts exploding out of your head? O_O

Ive heard of some horrible stuff growing inside tumors, suchs as teeth and nails, but a fully formed foot is just crazy.

In The Dark Half it was an eye 8-)

 

 

 

Christmas smiley's ftw.

Ive heard of some horrible stuff growing inside tumors, suchs as teeth and nails, but a fully formed foot is just crazy.

 

 

 

You have? That's strang... :-k

Ive heard of some horrible stuff growing inside tumors, suchs as teeth and nails, but a fully formed foot is just crazy.

 

 

 

You have? That's strang... :-k

 

 

 

I read a news story once about some guy who had a testicular tumor, inside it they found teeth and hair. There were pictures.

 

It grossed me out so much I didn't eat for a week. :|

Ive heard of some horrible stuff growing inside tumors, suchs as teeth and nails, but a fully formed foot is just crazy.

 

 

 

You have? That's strang... :-k

 

 

 

I read a news story once about some guy who had a testicular tumor, inside it they found teeth and hair. There were pictures.

 

It grossed me out so much I didn't eat for a week. :|

 

 

 

Are you serious!!!!!

 

That's disgusting! I had not idea at all the tumours could grow body parts. I just thought that they were little cancerous lumps slowly killing you...I have to do some research on this...

 

 

 

~Ouchy

The idea is that the tumor is an unborn twin that is absorbed into the other twin before birth. Once the baby was born, the unborn twin started growing again.

The idea is that the tumor is an unborn twin that is absorbed into the other twin before birth. Once the baby was born, the unborn twin started growing again.

 

And slowly sucking the life out of its host and killing it? Lovely parasite 8-)

 

 

 

~Ouchy

I don't know what to say except 'Big Deal'. :|

 

 

 

 

 

What has the world come to when having another person growing inside of someone isn't surprising?

 

What do you mean "What has the world come to"? Stuff like this is fairly common; fully formed teeth, eyes, and hair, among other parts, are found all the time. In fact, my mother knew two people that had teeth growing in their foot/body.

I have feet growing out of both of my ankles.

But once you can chew with your feet, then we'll talk.

I give it 3 thumbs up.

 

 

 

I get it

I have feet growing out of both of my ankles.

 

That must mean you have at least four feet! :shock:

I have feet growing out of both of my ankles.

 

That must mean you have at least four feet! :shock:

 

 

 

That would be awesome, apart from needing to buy 4 Pairs of Shoes (The Santa hat doesn't do it justice...)

 

 

 

~Ouchy

Damn now that makes for a cool story, "Ye when I was born I had an evil side, but I had it removed" or something along those lines.

 

 

 

Perhaps he's the anti-christ?