An elderly Chinese woman has been dubbed “the unicorn woman” due to an abnormal growth on her head that looks like a large horn. Liang Xiuzhen started growing something that resembled a “black mole” on her head around eight years ago, according to her son Wang Chaojun.
The 87-year-old, was left stunned when two years ago it gave way to a finger-sized horn-like mass. Xiuzhen accidentally “broke” that small horn in February - and her current, much larger, horn - which is currently 13cm long -began growing rapidly in its place.
“Now the horn hurts my mother and prevents her from sleeping. It also bleeds from time to time,” said Chaojun.
Doctors diagnosed the so-called unicorn horn as “cornu cutaneum” (cutaneous horn), a keratinous skin tumour that has the appearance of a horn. Often small and benign, the growth can in some cases be much larger and malignant.
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