A DEVASTATED mum in China is begging doctors to help her seven-month-old son - who has a three-inch TAIL sticking out of his back.
Little Xiao Wei was born with spina bifida, which means his vertebrae didn't form properly.
The result is a growth that protudes out of the back of his spine and is STILL GROWING. Xiao's mum Chen, from Guangdong province, revealed: "We have asked the surgeons to remove the tail but they tell us it is not that simple."
Surgeon Huang Chuanping explained: �The growth is quite well developed and now measures some 10 centimetres.
�If we cut it off it will simply grow again. We need to repair the spinal canal first to stop it reoccurring."Myelomeningocele is the most common type of spina bifida, affecting 1 in 800 babies born.
Source: thesun.co.uk
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