Washington: American doctors were shocked to find that an Indian computer science PhD student from Hyderabad who underwent brain surgery had an embryonic “evil twin” instead of a tumour in her head. The 26-year-old Yamini Karanam had jokingly called her “evil twin sister who’s been torturing me for 26 years”.
According to NBC, Karanam, who was studying at Indiana University, was unaware of what was happening in her head until she underwent a procedure designed to reach deep into the brain to extract the tumour. After waking up from the surgery, Karanam was surprised to learn of the “teratoma” – her embryonic twin, a rarity in modern medicine, complete with bone, hair and teeth.
“This is my second one, and I’ve probably taken out 7,000 or 8,000 brain tumours,” said Dr. Hrayr Shahinian at the Skullbase Institute in Los Angeles who performed the operation. (IANS)
