Chinese Grandmother, 101, Grows Mystery Horn On Forehead
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, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year. Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to be emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.
The condition has left her family baffled and worried.
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.
‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’
Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang’s head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.
This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin.
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.
They usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.
The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60 and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half of cases are benign.
Common underlying causes of cutaneous horns are common warts, skin cancer and actinic keratoses, patches of scaly skin that develop on skin exposed to the sun, such as your face, scalp or forearms.
Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.
{Daily Mail/Matzav.com Newscenter}
24 Responses to “Chinese Grandmother, 101, Grows Mystery Horn On Forehead”
2. Comment from Hesh Turner
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM
is it kosher for tekias shofar?
3. Comment from Anonymous
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:32 PM
the people who are supposed to have the most rachmanas in the world do not speak this way, joking about another person’s physical afflictions.
4. Comment from I wonder
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I wonder if this could have been the cause of the horses with horns (capricorns) which Rashi describes and maybe the condition faded over time.
5. Comment from yes
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM
#1 and 2 - don’t be mean!!! could you imagine if something like that happened to someone you know???
poor lady!
6. Comment from no
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:53 PM
does anyone know what one can do for molloscum on the face??
7. Comment from wow
Time March 11, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Chad gadya vehamayvin yavin
8. Comment from poshiter yid
Time March 11, 2010 at 10:15 PM
And I thought only Jews had horns!
9. Comment from moshe baruch nachum yehuda nosson ben R’ mordechai lipa yekusiel Halevi greeberg
Time March 11, 2010 at 10:15 PM
wierd
10. Comment from Anonymous
Time March 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
why are you poking fun? if your sister or wife had a growth or tumort would you mock them too?
11. Comment from super sports fan
Time March 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM
i once went out with a girl who looked like that, but she wore a hat so i didn’t notice. then i found out and broke it off.
12. Comment from to #11
Time March 11, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Note to self: If girl wears hat on date ask her to take it off to inspect for horns.
13. Comment from 100021
Time March 12, 2010 at 12:26 AM
#4:
Rashi wrote about “unicorns”, and not as you suggested/
14. Comment from Old “logic”
Time March 12, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Why don’t they have this tumor surgically removed?
15. Comment from midwesterner
Time March 12, 2010 at 1:08 AM
Mit a mohl, pix of females are OK?
16. Comment from to #15
Time March 12, 2010 at 2:59 AM
I’m not surprised…
17. Comment from 123
Time March 12, 2010 at 3:57 AM
hahahahaha
18. Comment from Anony
Time March 12, 2010 at 6:45 AM
Probably a descendant of Vashti.
19. Comment from nyj
Time March 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Why are you making mtzav a freak show? If yo think this is a newsworthy item, at least don’t put in a picture.
20. Comment from I wonder
Time March 12, 2010 at 9:57 AM
to #13
Thank you. You’re right.
I have a terrible memory when it comes to dates and names of people, places and things.
At least I remembered the “corn” part.
21. Comment from To #11
Time March 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM
“i once went out with a girl who looked like that, but she wore a hat so i didn’t notice. then i found out and broke it off.”
Please clarify - you broke what off? The horn? The relationship? Both?
22. Comment from Partzuf
Time March 12, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Since when is Matzav a wing of National Inquierer?
23. Comment from GMO food
Time March 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Does this not make you concerned about bio genetic engineering yet? Perhaps there was a little goat dna in her soy.
24. Comment from hottie
Time March 23, 2010 at 10:17 PM
youre sure shes not a jew????????
1. Comment from nu
Time March 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Give me a “Tekiah”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!