An 80-year-old Russian woman has lived her entire life with a needle measuring over an inch in length lodged in her brain, stunned doctors have revealed.

Medics on the remote Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific Ocean have concluded that the needle likely was proof of her parents’ botched attempt to kill her as a newborn during World War II.

“Such incidents were not uncommon during the years of starvation: a thin needle would be inserted into a newborn’s fontanel to damage the brain,” the Sakhalin Department of Health, which reported the curious case, wrote on its Telegram channel.

“The fontanel quickly closed up, covering up evidence of the crime, and the baby died.”

In the case of the elderly patient, the 1.2-inch-long needle pierced her left parietal lobe, but that “did not lead to the intended effect,” health officials noted.

The baby girl survived the attempted infanticide — and in the coming years and decades she had never complained of headaches due to the needle nestled in her brain.

The foreign object was only discovered this year after the Sakhalin resident, who has not been identified, went to a clinic to undergo a CT scan.

Doctors have decided against extracting the needle from the brain out of fear that it could harm the patient.

Local health officials stressed that the woman’s health was not at risk.

“Her condition is being monitored by her primary care physician,” the statement read.