Briantoby
Briantoby asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

No question, but thought of you & Challion when reading this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2117286-miniature-brain-and-skull-found-inside-16-year-old-girls-ovary/?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2017-1201-newGLOBAL&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS Love the Penric stories! Brian

Lois McMaster Bujold
Yep, teratomas are deeply weird. But at least reasonably well understood, nowadays. (That poor Chalionese proto-oncologist was really struggling.)

The weirdest fictional treatment of a teratoma I have yet run across was from the Black Jack mangas. Which are from bizarro-land even by the standards of manga.

Ta, L.

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