The 87-year old has been dubbed as the 'unicorn woman'
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An elderly chinese woman Liang Xiuzhen from Sichuan, south west China, came to doctors with what appeared to be a horn on her head. According to Daily Mail, the horn is actually a skin tumour comprising cells similar to the ones that form human hair and nails.
Currently the horn is 13 cm long “cornu cutaneum” (cutaneous horn), a keratinous skin tumour that has the appearance of a horn. The 87-year-old woman's son explained that about 8 years ago that the mole from which his mother's horn-shaped tumor grew started to itch.
Rather than seek medical help, the pensioner and her family attempted to treat it with a herbal remedy. For a while, everything seemed just fine. The mole stopped itching and so the woman and her family learned to simply ignore it.Then, a couple of years back, it suddenly split open and the tumor started developing from it. At first, the horn only grew to measure about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in length. Then, earlier this year, the woman's son knocked it off by mistake while washing his mother's hair. Soon enough, the horn returned and grew bigger than ever.
Now her family hope to not only raise awareness of the condition but also have the growth removed.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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