COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) -- A pediatric neurosurgeon says a tumor he removed from the brain of a Colorado infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts. Dr. Paul Grabb says he operated on Sam Esquibel at a Colorado Springs hospital after an MRI showed a microscopic tumor on his brain. Sam was 3 days old and otherwise healthy. Grabb said that while removing the growth, he discovered it contained a nearly perfect foot and the formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh. He says it looked like "the breach delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain." He says it's "borderline unheard of." The surgeon isn't sure what caused the growth. He says it could have been a type of congenital brain tumor or a case of a fetal twin beginning to form within another. But he says those cases very rarely occur in the brain.
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