Brain discovery in the ovaries of 16-year-old girls

During the appendix surgery for a 16-year-old Japanese girl, the doctors accidentally discovered a small brain growing with the skull and hair inside the girl's ovaries.

According to the New Scientist magazine of the UK on January 6, the 16-year-old girl initially did a simple surgery to remove the appendix.

During the operation, the doctors accidentally discovered a tumor inside the girl's ovary. When making a 10cm long incision to remove the tumor, they found a few pinches of hair, an incomplete small brain and a few pieces of bone.

Doctors who perform appendicitis for a 16-year-old patient have found a tumor that contains brain cells in the ovary.(Photo: Independent).

More detailed scans show that brain cells in this small brain have arranged themselves into a cerebellum (the part between the two hemispheres of the brain) miniaturized version.

After thoroughly studying this tumor, Dr. Masayuki Shintaku said the brain cell mass has grown to the point that electrical impulses can be transmitted between nerve cells. In addition, this brain cell mass also forms a section that looks very much like the brain stem (the brain joint with the spinal cord).

Although the cause of formation cannot be determined, tumors found in the female ovaries are often harmless. In those tumors, there are usually brain cells, but they rarely develop into structures like the human brain.

The surgeon removed the tumor in the ovary for the patient.(Photo: Independent).

Doctor Angelique Riepsamen of the University of New South Wales explained in New Scientist magazine: " Nerve cell structures are often found inside ovarian tumors. However, these structures develop to the same extent. for adults the brain is very rare ".

This woman does not show any strange symptoms even though reports on other women show that people experience symptoms such as paranoia, agitation, dementia . These symptoms occur. when the immune system begins to attack the "foreign brain" but eventually attacks the patient's own brain.

The tumor has now been removed and the girl is recovering well.