A 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl with bark-like warts on her face could be the first female to have contracted what is known as "tree man syndrome", doctors have said.
Sahana Khatun's father became concerned when a growth on his daughter's face began to spread.
He took her to Dhaka, where doctors have concluded she could have the same, incredibly rare, condition that has afflicted just four other people - all men - around the world.
The disease is called epidermodysplasia verruciformis or Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia - but more commonly referred to as "tree man syndrome" because of the bark-like appearance of the growths.
"We believe she is the first woman [to have the disease]," Samanta Lal Sen, head of Dhaka's Medical College Hospital burn and plastic surgery unit, told AFP.
Sahana's father, Mohammad Shahjahan, told the news agency: "We are very poor. My daughter lost her mother when she was only 6. I really hope that the doctors will remove the barks from my beautiful daughter's face."