In 2014, an elderly farmer, Shyam Lal Yadav, from the village of Rahli, Madhya Pradesh, hit his head hard, causing a bump to grow on his forehead.
Usually such bumps disappear over time, but in a 74-year-old Indian, on the contrary, in subsequent years it began to become larger and larger.
When something dark and hard broke through the skin and began to grow in height, Yadav was afraid that he was growing a "devil's horn" and began to beg the barbers to cut it off.
However, no one dared to undertake such an operation, while the horn continued to grow in height. The old man himself tried to cut it off while he was still small, but this did not stop the growth of the horn.
When the horn reached a height of 10 cm and it was no longer possible to hide it under the headdress, Yadav finally decided to go to the hospital.
They found out that the horn is made of keratin, the same substance that makes up nails and hair. In older people, a similar "horned" anomaly is sometimes found, but it is not yet possible to predict which factors are causing it.
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Doctors performed an operation and removed the entire horn with a piece of scalp. The biopsy confirmed that it was not a malignant tumor. The elderly patient is now recovering from surgery, but doctors cannot tell if the horn will grow back or not.
One of the probable reasons for the formation of such growths, doctors call exposure to sunlight. It is no coincidence that such horns most often grow in people who have worked all their lives in the field under the scorching sun and with their heads uncovered.