
Surgeons in China have successfully operated to remove a five-inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl.The highly rare case saw the tail actually grow larger after the girl was born rather than smaller, doctors at the hospital have said that the odds were one in a million of such a circumstance occuring.
The little girl, called Hong Hong,was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size, reports the Anhui Market Daily.
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.
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