Bengaluru Doctors Remove "Sack Of Marbles" Growing On Woman's Scalp Since Childhood
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The study did not disclose why the patient waited so long to have her swelling checked out, however, medics said that the growth was painless.
In an unusual case, doctors in Bengaluru recently operated on a woman who had a bulging growth on her head that was filled with what appeared to look like a "sack of marbles". Doctors at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences detailed the "uncommon" affliction in the journal Radiology.
The unnamed woman, 52, told doctors that her protuberance had been growing on her scalp since childhood, but she never sought medical help until now. The doctors said that she presented with "a painless, gradually enlarging scalp swelling" that had ballooned up to nearly 6 inches long, 4 inches wide and nearly 5 inches tall.
An MRI scan showed the cyst on the back of the woman's head like a fleshy hair bun. Upon removing the growth, the medics noticed that the lesion was filled with fluid, hair, and fatty molecules with "thick outer rims", and balls of keratin of varying sizes.
