An 18-year-old Indian teenager had an 18 cm vestigial tail surgically removed after keeping it clandestine his entire life as his family considered it a good luck charm. Medically speaking a vestigial tail is supposed to disappear during the embryo development giving way to the forming spinal cord and nervous system.
Less than 50 cases of vestigial tails have been recorded globally since the advent of modern times. According to some Indian media outlet(s), the team of surgeons performed an hour-long surgery to remove the recording break 18 cm vestigial outgrowth. Due to a neural abnormality the boy's tail persisted to grow to record breaking lengths, it was only when the tail developed bone and vertebrae that the boy starting feeling excruciating pain and had it tugging against his lower back; prior to that it was a dormant malformation .
The teenager also suffered in his day-to-day life and was aesthetically displeased with it while harboring certain psychologically issues with it. He is to be discharged from the hospital later this week.
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