Yamini Karanam, a 26-year-old graduate student, was having trouble reading and having conversations so she decided to have her brain checked last September.
“If a couple of people were talking in the room, I wouldn’t understand what was happening. I just didn't imagine any of this,” the woman from Indiana told NBC Los Angeles.
Initially, the doctors thought Yamini had a brain tumor. However, the doctors were shocked with what they discovered after performing a keyhole surgery on her.
PHOTO CREDIT: NBC Los Angeles
Inside Yamini’s brain, the surgeons found what seems to be her “evil twin sister”. Also known as teratoma, the tumor resembled a fetus and even had teeth, bones, hair.
Most teratomas contain teeth, bones, and hair but in some cases, these tumors have eyes, hands, feet, limbs, or torso.
For Yamini, it appeared that her “evil twin” has been tormenting her for the past 26 years.
PHOTO CREDIT: Mirror UK
Meanwhile, Dr. Hrayr Shahinian of the Skullbase Institute in Los Angeles said that it was only his second time to encounter such a case out of the 8,000 brain tumors he has removed.
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