Detecting teeth in newborn brains

Recently, a 4-month-old infant in Maryland was found to have teeth formed in her brain.

Prior to the faster development of other normal babies of the same age, doctors carried out and scanned the child's brain and found that there were molars in the baby's brain.

After that, the baby underwent brain surgery to remove the tumor. In it, in which doctors discovered that the tumor had developed into a complete tooth.

Doctors predict that this may be a rare type of brain tumor . After analyzing tumor tissue, the baby was identified as having a tumor compared to Craniopharyngioma - a rare brain tumor that could grow to a size larger than a golf ball, but fortunately this type of tumor is not contagious. spread.

A 4-month-old baby in Maryland was found to have teeth in the brain.

Dr. Narlin Beaty - a neurosurgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center who also performed the surgery for the baby with his colleague, Dr. Edward Ahn of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, said in a magazine The New England Journal of Medicine says it is very likely that tumors are formed from tooth-forming cells.

Craniopharyngioma is known to contain calcium but has never been seen to actually have these tumors that contain teeth.

Dr. Beaty said: 'This phenomenon has happened before, but it happens with Teratomas with three layers of the model. However, Craniopharyngiomas is just a tissue layer '.

According to the National Cancer Institute, these tumors are often diagnosed in children aged 5-14 years and very rare in children under 2 years of age.

It is known that the baby is developing well. However, because Craniopharyngiomas are tumors of the pituitary-gland in the brain responsible for stimulating important hormones, they often cause hormonal problems.

The tooth was sent to a pathologist to study further.