Meet The Mum Known as the ‘Unicorn Woman’ and Why

Doctors and the family members of an elderly woman in resides in a village in China have been left stunned since what looks like a unicorn has been growing on her head, the Mirror reports.

According to the media, the villager has become known to local residents as the ‘unicorn woman’ since the abnormal growth has appeared on the top of her head. Medical professionals are baffled by the appearance of the 13cm-long single large mass.

Liang Xiuzhen, the 87-year-old is a resident of Guiyan village in Ziyang City, in south-west China’s Sichuan Province. According to Wang Chaojun, Xiuzhen’s son, his mother had something resembling a “black mole” growing on her head seven or eight years ago.

Chaojun said: “My mother complained about this mole-like growth on her head that itched all the time. We found ways to cure her itch using traditional Chinese medicine, and then left it be.”

Two years ago however, the mole gave way to a small horn-like mass, the size of a little finger. Xiuzhen accidentally “broke” the small horn this February, and in its place her current horn began growing rapidly over the past six months.

Chaojun said: “Now the horn hurts my mother and prevents her from sleeping. It also bleeds from time to time.”

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Doctors in Sichuan 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.

Chaojun said doctors believe they can remove the growth through surgery, but the family has its reservations due to Xiuzhen’s old age and are considering other options.

“My mother is old, and the horn is on her head which is a very sensitive area. I’m not confident [in the idea of] surgery,” he added. “If something goes wrong [during surgery], it would be terrible.”