"Evil Twin Sister" Embryo Discovered Growing in Woman's Brain After Surgery to Fix Reading Problems

A woman from Indiana finds out that she has been keeping a 'twin sister' in her brain for 26 years. This shocking discovery came out after she underwent a brain surgery supposedly addressing reading and comprehension troubles.

"If a couple of people were talking in a room, I wouldn't understand what was happening," 26-year old Yamini Ms Karanam said in an interview, 9News reports.

Karanam claimed that she has been seeking advice with a couple of neurologists and neurosurgeons but decided to receive treatment from Dr Hrayr Shahinian at the Skullbase Institute in Los Angeles as he is famous for developing the first ever minimally-invasive procedure of extracting brain tumors.

According to a report from Inquisitr, Dr Shahinian used the precision of the endoscope and a very tiny incision of the brain to protect neighboring tissues.

"Unlike traditional brain surgery where you open the skull and use metal retractors and you bring a microscope to see in the depths of the brain, what we're doing is keyhole surgery," the doctor said.

It was on April 15 that Karanam had the surgery and when she woke up she was told that her brain contained a teratoma in the form of an embryonic twin complete with bone, hair and teeth.

"An evil twin sister who has been torturing me for the past 26 years," she joked during the interview.

Dr Shahinian shared good news about the patient's case saying that the teratoma is non-cancerous and the patient is expected to recover in three weeks.

According to Softpedia, cases of having a teratoma is rare but not completely unheard of citing earlier reports of researchers in China reporting a case of a baby girl born pregnant with her own sibling.

The patient also successfully survive from the operation and went home to recover.