Chinese doctors are baffled by a bizarre, five-inch growth on an
elderly woman’s head. They aren’t able to explain what it is exactly,
but it bears an uncanny resemblance to a unicorn’s horn! It all started
when ‘Unicorn Woman’ Liang Xiuzhen developed a mole on her head about
seven or eight years ago. “My mother complained about this mole-like
growth on her head that itched all the time,” said her son Wang Chaojun.
“We found ways to cure her itch using traditional Chinese medicine, and
then left it be.”
Scoop reports:
But matters got out of hand a couple of years ago, when a
tiny horn-like mass erupted out of the mole. It was quite small up
until this February, when Liang accidentally broke it. Since then, a new
horn has been rapidly growing in its place, now measuring a whopping
five inches in length. “Now the horn hurts my mother and prevents her
from sleeping. It also bleeds from time to time,” Wang Chaojun said.
87-year-old Liang’s photographs are now all over the internet, and
doctors are clueless about what to do with her grotesque horn. Some have
diagnosed it to be a ‘cornu cutaneum’ – a keratinous skin tumor that
looks like a horn. Surgery is the only option to have it removed, but
Wang Chaojun is skeptical.
“My mother is old, and the horn is on her head which is a
very sensitive area,” he said. “I’m not confident (of) surgery. If
something goes wrong, it would be terrible.” This story reminds me of
another perplexing skin growth we heard of last year – a woman named
Shanaya who had fingernails sprouting out of hair follicles all over her body. In both cases, these poor women seem to be in a lot of pain.
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