Los Angeles surgeons working to remove a tumor from an Indiana woman’s brain said the growth turned out to be the patient’s embryonic twin. UPI reports:


Yamini Karanam, 26, a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, said she underwent surgery at the Skull Base Institute after problems she started having with reading and listening comprehension last September were determined to be the result of a tumor in her brain.
Karanam said she was shocked when she woke up after the surgery and Dr. Hrayr Shahinian’s team revealed the tumor to be an embryonic twin with bone, hair and teeth. Shahinian said such a tumor, or “teratoma,” is rare to find in modern medicine. “This is my second one, and I’ve probably taken out 7,000 or 8,000 brain tumors,” Shahiniantold NBC Los Angeles.

lomaxx:
The topic is misleading. It rather paints the picture of a twin ectopic pregnancy in the brain.

The patient had a teratoma removed from her skull. Teratoma can either be one of embryonic or germinal tissue. This patient had an embryonic teratoma which divided into "twin" embryonic tissues.

Topics should be made to reflect the content abeg.

juman:


I reread the news again I think the topic given by the website where I picked the news is appropriate.

Anyway what do you think the topic suppose to be?

lomaxx:

Embryonic Tumour Discovered.....

Karanam said she was shocked when she woke up after the surgery and Dr. Hrayr Shahinian’s team revealed the tumor to be an embryonic twin with bone, hair and teeth.

juman:



But what of the part of the news that stated that the the tumor to be an embryonic twin with bone, hair and teeth?

lomaxx:


Teratomas are tumors derived from the 3 germ cell layers which would give you the bone,, hair teeth. Whether the teratoma is in the ovary, lungs, liver, or in the midline, you will have the same features. It doesn't mean there was a fertlization and subsequent implantation like a normal embryo.