16-Year-Old Who is Infant Sized Stuns Medical Experts | ChattahBox News Blog
June 24, 2009
US (ChattahBox) - Doctors all over the world are intrigued by the case of a sixteen year old girl who is the size of an infant, and is showing no signs of growing any larger.
Brooke Greenberg has the mental development of a toddler, the bone development of a ten year old, and weighs approximately 16 pounds. Despite all of this, she has shown an unbelievable resilience that has left doctors stunned.
Brooke has had seven surgeries for perforated ulcers in the stomach, has had a stroke that caused no discernible brain damage, and had a tumor that left her in a 2 week coma, from which she suddenly woke up, and the tumor disappeared. She has been perfectly healthy (in a relative sense) ever since.
These are just a few details in the incredible mystery of this teenage girl, who doctors are at a loss to explain.
“Many of the best-known names in medicine, in their experience, had not seen anyone who matched up to Brooke. She is always a surprise, ” her pediatrician, Dr. Lawrence Pakula, was quoted in an ABC report.
Perhaps what is most fascinating about Brooke is the fact that no developmental or genetic disorder has explained her strange situation, nor have any treatments usually used in age-related diseases. Years ago they tried various hormone therapies, but saw no results.
In the meantime, Brooke is the truest example of the fountain of youth, as she lives her life in a neverending childhood that physicians are unable to explain.