An eight-month-old girl faces surgery after being born with a rare disorder which makes her feet grow to an abnormally large size.
The parents of the youngster, from India, took her to hospital after noticing her toes and feet were getting increasingly large, despite her not injuring herself.
The girl was diagnosed with macrodystrophia lipomatosa (MDL), otherwise known as gigatism, which can manifest itself in one or more fingers or toes, or sometimes entire limbs.
It causes the progressive enlargement of the fibrofatty tissue, making them reach abnormal sizes.
Writing in the medical journal Cureus, researchers wrote the girl was otherwise completely healthy.
“This was not associated with any delayed attainment of developmental milestones," they said.
"There was no history of trauma, pain or skin changes. There is no relevant family history of any similar diseases. The upper limbs were normal."
Ultrasounds revealed that the excess size of the girl's toes was down to fatty tissue in the immediate area.
It is the first time researchers reported seeing the condition in all 10 toes.
The researchers added the best treatment option for the little girl is unknown, as the condition is so rare.
They said: "It is important to report such anecdotal cases to get knowledge about their clinicopathological behaviour and standardise optimal treatment options since prospective studies are not feasible due to rarity of the disease and paucity of data."
Although the condition is rare, the Mirror has reported on the plight of other children who suffer with the disease.
In 2015, Mohammad Kaleem became known as the 'Boy with the World's Biggest Hands' before he underwent dramatic surgery to reduce them.
The eight-year-old was born with a condition which caused his hands and arms to keep on growing until they looked like giant's hands, and weighed a colossal two stone between them.
The poor boy's parents, who earn less than £15 a month, could not afford to pay for doctors, and his hands grew to a length of 33cm from wrist to fingertips, led superstitious villagers to believe he was cursed.
And in 2017, a 13-year-old boy who was forced to leave school because of bullies making fun of his 6ft 6in height.
Waleed Farukh, 13, was still growing but his school life was been plagued by name calling from peers in his class.
The boy become a recluse and spendt time with his pet cats and a parrot at home.
Waleed, from from Quetta in Pakistan, was born in 2004 as the third child to Farukh Sultan and Haleema Furqan.
By the time he turned four, he stood double the height of children his age.
His parents first thought he was growing faster but soon realised their son's growth was unusual.
They took him to several doctors who told them Waleed was suffering from Gigantism, a condition caused by over growth of hormones leading to excessive growth and height significantly above average.
