80-Year-Old Woman Lives Her Whole Life With a Needle in Her Brain: Dr

Doctors in Russia have learned that an 80-year-old woman has lived her entire life with an inch-long needle in her brain.

A local radiologist discovered a three-centimeter needle in the brain of an 80-year-old woman during an X-ray scan, the Ministry of Health in Sakhalin said in a post on the social media platform Telegram on Wednesday.

The health ministry said the small needle was found in the central part of the woman’s brain, whose identity has not been released. Although the ministry did not specify the exact date of the recovery of the needle, it said that the needle was recovered this year.

The needle had been inside the woman’s brain since birth. Doctors believe that they should be safe from their parents’ failed attempt at infanticide.

During the famine of the 1930s, during the Soviet era, desperate, poverty-stricken parents would stick a needle into the soft part of the baby’s head where the skull bone had not fully matured.

Later the scalp would be attached and the needle would be stuck inside, but the newborn would eventually die.

The local health department of the remote Russian region wrote on its Telegram channel that ‘such incidents were not uncommon during the famine years. A thin needle was inserted into the newborn baby’s head to cause brain damage.

‘The scalp would have quickly healed and the evidence of the crime would have been hidden and the child would have died.’

Sakhalin is an island of 50,000 people located 6.5 km off the southeast coast of Russia and 40 km from Hokkaido in northern Japan.

Thus the work, which is believed to have been done on a woman who was probably born around 1943, did not produce the desired results, although the woman complained of occasional headaches.

The ministry’s statement said that doctors have decided not to perform surgery to remove the needle fearing that the operation may harm the patient. ‘Primary care doctors are monitoring his condition.’

The ministry added that the woman’s condition is out of danger.

Control of the area was divided between the former Soviet Union and the then Japanese Empire after a 1905 war.

The Soviet Union occupied the Japanese side of the island in 1945 in the final days of World War II.