Re: Colorado Doctor Finds Foot In Newborn's Brain
- From: metspitzer <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:53:59 -0500
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:11:11 -0500, metspitzer <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs family is part of one of
the strangest cases in medical history.
Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he discovered a small
foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel, reported
KMGH-TV in Denver.
The appendage threatened the newborn's life.
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The reason for the strange growth is not known. It may be a teratoma
-- a congenital brain tumor composed of foreign tissue such as muscle,
hair or teeth. Those types of tumors do not usually grow as complex as
a foot.
It could also be a case of fetus in fetu, which is a developmental
abnormality in which a fetal twin begins to form within the other.
Grabb told the paper he sees a teratoma once every few years but it
doesn't compare to Sam's.
"You show those pictures to the most experienced pediatric
neurosurgeons in the world, and they've never seen anything like it,"
Grabb told the Gazette.
http://www.kcci.com/health/18300617/detail.html
I know very little about Tetragametic chimerism, but everytime I read
about something like this, it catches my attention.
Wouldn't a DNA test solve this riddle?
14 Jan 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4231256/Foot-in-brain-baby-a-miracle-says-mother.html
The mother of the baby born with a tiny foot inside his brain has
described his survival as a "miracle", as tests showed that the tumour
has not grown back.
Sam Esquibel, the baby born with a tiny foot inside his brain Photo:
Miracle baby who had foot growing in his brain...Baby Sam Esquibel
survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a FOOT in
his brain.Ultrasounds on Sam's heavily pregnant mum Tiffnie Esquibel
showed that the unborn child had a tumour in his br
Miracle baby who had foot growing in his brain...Baby Sam Esquibel
survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a FOOT in
his brain.Ultrasounds on Sam's heavily pregnant mum Tiffnie Esquibel
showed that the unborn child had a tumour in his br Photo: Splash
Surgeons removed the growth from Sam Esquibel's head days after his
birth in October, and the three-month-old boy is now said to be fit
and healthy.
New photos of the operation show the blood vessels inside the tumour,
which also included other partially-formed body parts including a
second foot, a hand and a thigh.
Doctors now believe that the condition was probably a teratoma, a type
of tumour that contains hair, teeth, bones and body organs but usually
does not occur in the brain.
Another theory is that Sam suffered from a condition called fetus in
fetu in which one twin envelops the other, but the disorder is so rare
that there have been fewer than 100 reported incidents in the world.
Parents Manuel and Tiffinie Esquibel told NBC's The Today Show that
doctors were so concerned about the tumour that they were urged to get
Sam baptised.
"When I went into hospital I thought, 'OK we're going to come out of
here with a baby in our arms'," Mrs Esquibel said.
"But we didn't ? he was in another hospital. They told us it was a
50-50 chance whether he could make it through it or not."
She said that Sam was now doing well but his birth had turned their
lives upside down. "He is a miracle. I just love him so much."
Neurosurgeon Dr Paul Grabb, who led a team that operated on Sam's
brain at Colorado Springs Memorial Central, described the moment that
he opened the tumour and the foot was revealed.
"A lot of us who have been in practice long enough like to think we've
seen everything," he said. "Well, we haven't. The foot quite literally
popped out of the tumour. I stopped operating, since I'm not used to
seeing a foot in the brain."
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<quote> Doctors now believe that the condition was probably a
teratoma, a type of tumour that contains hair, teeth, bones and body
organs but usually does not occur in the brain.
Another theory is that Sam suffered from a condition called fetus in
fetu in which one twin envelops the other, but the disorder is so rare
that there have been fewer than 100 reported incidents in the world.
<quote>
I go back to my original question.............If theory A is correct,
the DNA would be a match.
If theory B is correct then the DNA would not be a match.
I would think the doctors would want to use a DNA test to confirm if
the "growth" is a tumor.
Future treatment of the patient should be guided by whether the
"growth' is a tumor or not.
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