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The mother of the baby born with a tiny foot inside his brain has described his survival as a "miracle", as tests showed that the tumour has not grown back.

Miracle baby who had foot growing in his brain...Baby Sam Esquibel survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a FOOT in his brain.Ultrasounds on Sam's heavily pregnant mum Tiffnie Esquibel showed that the unborn child had a tumour in his br
Miracle baby who had foot growing in his brain...Baby Sam Esquibel survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a FOOT in his brain.Ultrasounds on Sam's heavily pregnant mum Tiffnie Esquibel showed that the unborn child had a tumour in his br

Surgeons removed the growth from Sam Esquibel's head days after his birth in October, and the three-month-old boy is now said to be fit and healthy.

New photos of the operation show the blood vessels inside the tumour, which also included other partially-formed body parts including a second foot, a hand and a thigh.

Doctors now believe that the condition was probably a teratoma, a type of tumour that contains hair, teeth, bones and body organs but usually does not occur in the brain.