An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s.
Grandmother Zhang Ruifang began developing the mysterious protrusion last year.
Since then it has grown six centimetres and another now appears to be emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.
Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn’t pay too much attention to it’.
‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,’ added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years old.
Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool and feathers in animals.
Th ey usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a history of signifi cant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.
Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.
Source: www.metro.co.uk
