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A teenager with a 20cm “tail” growing at the bottom of his spine has undergone surgery to have it removed.<\/p>\n

It started to appear on the 18-year-old’s back just after his 14th birthday.<\/p>\n

He and his family, from Nagpur in India, had kept it a secret because they were worried he would be bullied.<\/p>\n

They finally went to see a doctor after it grew too long to hide – and had begun to develop a bone inside.<\/p>\n

It’s thought to be the longest ever recorded on a human – although cases are very rare.<\/p>\n

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Video caption<\/span>A teenager in India has a 20cm ‘tail’ removed from his back<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“It became a problem when the tail grew outside the body,” said his mum, who doesn’t want to be named.<\/p>\n

“He would just lift the tail every time he needed to change his clothes.<\/p>\n

“I could see that it was very annoying and painful for him, so I took him to a hospital.”<\/p>\n

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Doctors say the teenager might have developed the tail in the womb as a result of a spinal deformity, but that it appeared outside only after he grew up.<\/p>\n

“When the size of the tail grew… [it] began to press on the boy’s back,” said surgeon, Dr Pramod Giri.<\/p>\n

“It was cosmetically and psychologically disturbing for him.”<\/p>\n

Although surgically removing a tail isn’t a very complicated procedure, it must be carried out by a neurosurgeon as the growth of tail involves a part of the spinal cord.<\/p>\n

It normally develops when the end of the spine is flattened in some way.<\/p>\n

The teenager will be kept in hospital for a few days and then allowed back home – without his tail.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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