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Hair, fingernail, teeth were found in the ovaries of a young woman in southern Thailand, there is no black magic involved

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Hair, fingernail, teeth were found in the ovaries of a young woman in southern Thailand, there is no black magic involved

Doctors at Sichon Hospital, in Thailand’s southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province, recently performed surgery on a 17-year-old woman to remove a cyst from her ovary, affecting hair, bones, teeth, fingernails and contained an oily material.

The director of the hospital, Dr Arak Wongworachat, later wrote in his Facebook post that the young woman was not a victim of black magic, as some locals suspected due to the discovery of the remarkable things in her ovary, but he explained that the unnamed woman was suffering from dermoid cyst of the ovary, or ovarian teratomas.

A dermoid cyst of the ovary is usually benign. It usually contains a diversity of tissues, such as hair, teeth, bones and the like. It develops from a totipotential germ cell that is retained in the ovary.

That cell can give rise to all orders of cells necessary to form mature tissue and often recognizable structures, such as hair, bone and oily material, nervous tissue and teeth. The cyst can range in size from 1 cm to 45 cm in diameter.

In his post, Dr. Arak said the woman was rushed to hospital last week with acute abdominal pain, which her relatives believed to be appendicitis.

The woman reportedly told an emergency room doctor that she felt a sudden but brief abdominal pain two days ago, but the pain returned and increased in the evenings to the point that she could not sleep. The pain subsided the next day after taking some painkillers, but at night she felt more pain, vomited and lost her appetite, adding that she was later rushed to hospital by relatives.

A doctor quickly performed a covid19 test, which was negative, then administered saline and performed an ultrasound examination.

She was immediately sent for surgery when a large growth was found in her ovary that appeared to be rupturing, the hospital director said, adding that the growth was in fact a bleeding dermoid cyst, about 12 cm in diameter. The operation took about 30 minutes.

  1. Arak said a dermoid cyst can only be treated surgically, but he cautioned that surgeons performing the surgery must be careful not to rupture the cyst, or else the other tissue could end up in the stomach and cause the cyst to reappear later.

However, he assured that most dermoid cysts are benign and that the chance of it becoming cancerous is about 1%.

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