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"9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach"
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9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.
"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.
The girl has made a full recovery, he said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.
The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.
THATS NASTY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNO THAT WAS POSSIBLE!!!
weird. there is a similar type of tumor, that isn't a twin, and i'll be damned if i can't remember the proper name of these tumors. they have teeth and hair also, and sometimes even fingernails. the name is as weird as the tumor itself, and it's driving me fucking nuts that i can't remember the proper term…