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Father and mother of an Indian boy who began intense abdominal pain, immediately took his son to the hospital. There are doctors with surprised to find that the cause of poor child health is a dead fetus located right in the stomach of a young the patient. So, according to the doctors, the boy because of the incredible a rare developmental pathology was indirectly pregnant.
Four-year-old Archim Mikhopadhyay from the village of Harikaband, which located in the west of the country, is a very ordinary boy, who goes to kindergarten, is physically active, enjoys playing outdoor games with their peers. The child never complained to health, but a few days ago he started literally screaming and rolling on the floor, as his stomach hurt sharply. Archim’s parents rented a car from their neighbors and drove their son to nearest hospital.
At the hospital, doctors injected a potent boy painkiller and examined him. First, the medical staff institutions suggested that the small patient had a tumor, however computed tomography and ultrasound showed that in the stomach of Archim there is a developed dead fetus. This condition is called in medicine “foetus in fetu”, that is, “embryo in the embryo.” Pathology is so rare that everything in the history of world medicine no more than two hundred such cases were recorded. it occurs when one of the twins in the womb penetrates in another, and then dies. In this case, the surviving child is forced carry a dead brother or sister.
According to Dr. Shirshendu Giri, the fetus inside the four-year-old Indian had arms and legs with nails, and also partially formed head. Doctors have successfully removed the dead fetus, and currently Archimus feels well, being while under the supervision of hospital staff.
It is worth noting that the World Health Organization has long aware of this pathology, but for some reason classifies it as a kind of oncology, although in fact it is precisely about the dead fruit of one of the twins, penetrating the body of another.
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