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Fifteen-year-old schoolboy Mod Zul Sharil Seydin from Malaysian Kedahah State recently visited doctors complaining of intense abdominal pain. According to the teenager, he tested them and earlier, however in the last four months the pain has simply become unbearable, and relatives took the teenager to the hospital. Doctors examined the patient and were very surprised to find in his stomach at first it seemed to them, a huge tumor.
On the same day, a young Malaysian was operated on. Surgeons startled even more when the student was removed from the abdominal cavity an organism resembling a deformed baby with disproportionately large head, long hair, two legs and underdeveloped male genitalia. The parasite is supposedly was all this time, so to speak, alive, but during operations, being separated from the owner, died. His weight was just over two kilograms. One can only guess how miserable teenager all fifteen years “nurtured” this horror.
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In science, such an anomaly is called “fetus in fetu”, which translated from Latin as “embryo in embryo”. The condition is considered extremely rare – in the history of medicine no more two hundred such cases. In this case, doctors still can not come to a consensus, what is the reason for this phenomenon. According to one hypothesis, the parasite is a tumor in which occurs abnormal development of certain tissues and organs.
Parasitic twin decided to bury
However, a more common theory is that we are talking about parasitic twins. During a monozygous pregnancy, two fetuses, having a common placenta, connect, and one embryo, as it were “wraps” around the second. Logically, both fruits must die, but sometimes it happens that the “outer” twin survives and is born carrying a parasitic brother or sister, which may develop for some time. The parasite is always devoid brain and severely deformed, so can not live without a host. He receives all the nutrients and oxygen through some semblance umbilical cord, the break of which immediately leads to the death of such the twin.
Mod Zul Sharil Seydin, who is the fifth of seven children in the family, is currently in the hospital. Operation according to doctors, was successful, but the teenager will need a long rehabilitation. Patient’s mother, thirty-eight-year-old Hasma Ahmad Seydin, told reporters that she and her husband decided bury the parasitic twin of their son according to local traditions, so as not to incur the wrath of spirits who may disapprove of throwing away the remains of an infant, even if underdeveloped, in a container with medical waste.
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