The snail grows in the body through the wound

Recently, doctors in Los Angeles, USA had surgery to remove a small snail from the abscess of an 11-year-old boy. This is considered the first rare case recorded in medicine, Dailymail said.

The snail grows in the tumor at the boy's elbow.

The snail gradually grew in the tumor at the elbow of the Spanish boy, about 4 mm in size, identified as a species named cheered periwinkle . However, just one day after being taken from the boy's body, this snail died.

According to a doctor at the Department of Pediatrics at Loma Linda University, the boy was infected with snail eggs when he elbowed the shore, where thousands of mollusc animals lived. At that time, a snail egg had invaded his body through the wound, hatched into a snail and grew, causing a bump of pus abscess due to infection.

Doctors decided to suck pus from a sterile needle tumor. But they were amazed to see the "small dark and dark object" in the tumor. It was a small shell with a shell, about 4mm in size.

This species of cheered periwinkle lives on the west coast of the United States, Mexico, Canada, which can be as large as 15mm.