baby has been born with a 12cm real human tail protruding from its left buttock, complete with a freakish 4cm-wide ball on the endIt baffled doctors at Albert Sabin Children's Hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil, who eventually surgically removed the fleshy ball and chain.
The birth and subsequent surgery have since been logged in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, which shows fascinating photos of the appendage and explains how it came to be.
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