An 18-year-old resident of Nagpur, India, suffered from a developmental anomaly for a long time, but did not tell anyone about his problem. When the pain became unbearable, and the guy could not sit and sleep normally, he turned to local surgeons for help. Doctors discovered he had an 18-centimeter rudimentary tail. This defect formed when the boy was still in the womb and continued to grow after his birth.
This anomaly should have disappeared even before the birth of the child, during the formation of his back, but this did not happen.
The parents knew about the problem of their son, but did not take any measures to help him, only asked not to tell anyone about this anomaly.
Only when the pain became unbearable, the young man turned to surgeons for help.
6 surgeons worked on the removal of the 18-centimeter tail.
Dr. Pramod Giri commented on the situation: "This is an extremely rare case, and we have never encountered such a phenomenon before."
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The rudimentary tail brought the young man a lot of suffering, affecting, among other things, his psyche. At the same time, the parents believed that this anomaly was a symbol of good luck.
After the operation, the young man finally does not feel discomfort and lives a normal life.
If the fetus develops correctly, then by the sixth week of pregnancy, the caudal appendage disappears. In medical practice, only 23 cases of the birth of children with a rudimentary tail have been registered. Operations to remove this defect are not dangerous, because there is no bone or spinal cord in the tail.