Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot

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Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot

Thu Dec 18, 5:24 am ET

   
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – 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.

[Free libertarian]

Never had a foot in my brain..but I have put my foot in my mouth a few times. My dad said he'd put his foot up my ass if I didn't mow the lawn one time, back when dad's were still allowed to tell their kids what to do.

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Never had a foot in my brain..but I have put my foot in my mouth a few times. My dad said he'd put his foot up my ass if I didn't mow the lawn one time, back when dad's were still allowed to tell their kids what to do.

My poor dad gave up on telling me what to do, it was such a sad decline of "trying to help me", he just gave up when I hit 23.   I didn't disrespect him though so I know what your writing about "when dad's were still allowed......"       I just didn't take his advice and yeah now I say, " I should've listened more."      One of the happiest days of his life was when I got married and he said, "she's all yours now Rick!"