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Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
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.
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: Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
The picture is
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Re: Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
Man thats crazy.. Glad the baby is okay tho.
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crazy
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Thankfully the baby is ok!
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Re: Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
Holy nibblets!!!
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Re: Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
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Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
Her twin or she was pregnant with a twins?.. this stuff amazes me.
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Posted by BabySammie
Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
Her twin or she was pregnant with a twins?.. this stuff amazes me.
It was her twin, which had been inside her for 20-something years. Her doctor said it was "textbook" and contained hair, teeth, etc.
There was a definite relief that it wasn't cancerous but it freaked her out.
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Re: Baby's Brain Tumor Contained Foot
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Posted by BabySammie
Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
Her twin or she was pregnant with a twins?.. this stuff amazes me.
It was her twin, which had been inside her for 20-something years. Her doctor said it was "textbook" and contained hair, teeth, etc.
There was a definite relief that it wasn't cancerous but it freaked her out.
Thats wicked!! reminds me of big fat greek wedding movie.
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Yikes!
Sounds like a Stephen King book I read.
Poor baby 
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Posted by BabySammie
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by BabySammie
Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
Her twin or she was pregnant with a twins?.. this stuff amazes me.
It was her twin, which had been inside her for 20-something years. Her doctor said it was "textbook" and contained hair, teeth, etc.
There was a definite relief that it wasn't cancerous but it freaked her out.
Thats wicked!! reminds me of big fat greek wedding movie.
Yeah it was in 2001 before the movie came out. Needless to say we were hysterical when we saw it.
(Sorry for the hijack)
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omg! so strange. that poor baby... 
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Wow! Hope the baby will be okay!
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Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
I know someone in her 20's who had this too...
Is it the same person?
So weird..
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Yikes!
Sounds like a Stephen King book I read.
Poor baby
The Dark Half, right? I thought the same thing
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Posted by BabySammie
Posted by nrthshgrl
I have a friend in her 20s that had a "tumor" in her ovary. They thought cancer but it later when it was removed said it was a partially developed twin.
Her twin or she was pregnant with a twins?.. this stuff amazes me.
It was her twin, which had been inside her for 20-something years. Her doctor said it was "textbook" and contained hair, teeth, etc.
There was a definite relief that it wasn't cancerous but it freaked her out.
I had a huge ovarian tumor removed when I was in my 20's (diagnosed when I was 16. It had hair and teeth It was the size of a football by the time they finally did the surgery
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