Surgeons in China have operated to remove a five inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl.
The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size.
Her father, Hou, of Lixing town in eastern China’s Anhui province, said he had been “shocked” to see the tail at birth.
“I wanted to cut it off when she was born, but doctors suggested we wait some time, as a newborn is too weak to take such a surgery,” he said.
He checked the tail each day, hoping it would get smaller but instead it just “grew bigger and bigger”, he added.
Doctors at the Anhui Provincial Children’s Hospital said they had been surprised by the case.
“It’s very rare, about one in a million. We have never seen anything like this before,” said Dr Sun Jun.
X-rays had shown that the tail was connected to a fatty tumor within the spinal column.
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