Local health authorities in the Russian Sakhalin region shared a startling post on the messaging service on Wednesday Telegram.
This is reported by the American website, among others Insider.
The doctors are said to have found a three centimeter long needle in the brain of an 80-year-old woman.
Furthermore, they write that the woman must have lived with the foreign object in her head since she was an infant.
The needle penetrated the woman’s lobe, the part of the brain that according to Department of Life Sciences at the University of Oslo, is important for taste, speech, reading and somatic sensory information.
The doctors also have a theory as to why the needle ended up there.
– Not unusual
They believe her parents tried to kill her when she was an infant – during World War II.
– Such cases were not unusual in years of famine. A thin needle was then pressed into the infant’s fontanel and damaged the brain, they write in the Telegram post.
– The fontanelle quickly closed, thus hiding the traces of the crime. The child then died, they explain further.
Never seen anything like it
Fontanell are the soft parts of an infant’s head, where the bones of the skull have not yet grown together, writes Large Norwegian encyclopedia.
Will not be operated on
The parents’ attempt to kill her failed, and the woman has subsequently lived with a needle in her head for 80 years.
She should not have been bothered by headaches, and the needle was only discovered when doctors did a CT scan of her head this year.
There is no exact date for when the survey was carried out.
The woman’s life is not in danger, and she is being followed up by the treating doctor. It has been decided not to perform a surgical procedure to remove the needle, as they believe this could do more harm than good.
2023-10-05 15:38:25
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