23 cm-long worm taken out of woman’s brain
July 6th, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANSShanghai, July 6 (IANS) A 23 cm long tapeworm has been surgically removed from a Chinese woman’s brain.
Doctors in a Nanjing hospital removed the worm from the brain of 24-year-old Li Fang a week ago, the Shanghai Daily quoted the Yangtze Evening News as reporting.
Li said she was disgusted at the thought of the tapeworm living in her brain.
Li’s husband Yang said she suffered her first seizure last December and she was taken to hospital where it was detected that there was something in her brain but doctors could not determine what it was.
The second seizure was in June. This time a scan showed a strange object in her brain and a decision to operate was taken.
Doctors found a roughly spherical mass that was pressing against her brain nerves. While removing it, they suddenly found a long worm attached to it.
It was a tapeworm — alive and wriggling.
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