26 year old Yamini Karanam, was having brain surgery
for a suspected tumour when she discovered her "evil
twin sister"
From Mirror UK
An embryonic twin has been find inside a woman's
brain while she was having surgery for a suspected
tumour. Doctors discovered the twin, known medically
as a 'teratoma', complete with bone, hair and teeth,
inside the brain of Yamini Karanam.
Yamini sought medical help last September when she
began to struggle with conversations and reading. If a
couple of people were talking in the room, I wouldn't
understand what was happening," Yamini told NBC Los
Angeles. "I just didn't imagine any of this"
Doctors were initially unsure what was wrong with the
PhD student and performed keyhole surgery in her brain.
That was when surgeons made the amazing discovery
and removed the teratoma – Yamimi's twin that never
developed.
Yamini, from Indiana, joked that the teratoma was was
her "evil twin sister who's been torturing me for the past
26 years".
Dr Hrayr Shahinian, at the Skullbase Institute in Los
Angeles, said it was only the second teratoma he had
come across out of up to 8,000 brain tumours he has
removed.
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