A New York surgical procedure was supposed to remove a patient's brain tumor. But the medical team found something quite different.
Let's arrange the story in proper Gothic order.
First, the setting:
In September, scrubbed-up surgeons in an operating room at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City opened Palma’s cranium and steeled themselves for a malignant brain tumor, said Jonathan Rasouli, chief neurosurgery resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Next, the surprise:
But instead, Rasouli said, they saw an encapsulated mass resembling a quail egg.
“We were all saying, ‘What is this?’ ” Rasouli recalled Thursday in a phone interview with The Washington Post. “It was very shocking. We were scratching our heads, surprised at what it looked like.”
Then the revelation:
The surgeons removed it from Palma’s brain and placed it under a microscope to get a closer look. Then they sliced into it — and found a baby tapeworm.
Behold:
We at Infocult are all about scary stories, and are therefore pleased to see the patient anticipating us:
“I want people to understand that this was such a rare occurrence,” Palma said about the tapeworm that was in her brain. “Every headache is not going to be a parasite.”
(thanks to Steven "My Brain Hurts" Kaye)
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