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Surgeons found his unborn in the stomach of a two-year-old child Siamese twin. With an unusual case in his practice faced doctors from China. After the doctors examined a two-year-old boy with a huge belly from Huashi Village, it turned out that in him was his unborn twin brother. It was decided to undergo an emergency operation, as the stomach was swollen to incredible sizes, internal organs began to squeeze, and it became hard for the baby to breathe, writes the Daily Mail. It turned out that brother, which was inside him all this time, was not much smaller than the boy himself. His body was underdeveloped, but the spine, limbs and fingers on arms and legs are fully formed. This the case, the doctors explained, is one of the varieties of Siamese the twins. They are born when a fertilized egg not fully shared. But, as the neonatologist from the nursery noted Cleveland Hospital Dr. Jonathan Fanarof, in the case of “pregnant” baby, the egg did not share.
In the entire history of medicine, there are hundreds of cases when one of twin embryos is “absorbed” by his brother and continues development within it. This phenomenon always occurs early on. stages of pregnancy, and usually both fetuses die in the womb mothers. It happens, however, that childbirth is successful and caught in the trap embryo continues to live like a parasite connected to its big brother a kind of umbilical cord. In the end he becomes so big that it starts to harm itself to the owner. In medicine, this anomaly is called fetus in fetu (embryo in the embryo). By the way, the same case was recorded a few years ago in india. The belly of 36-year-old Sanju Bhagat was bloated so much that he looked like a woman who was about to will give birth. The surgeons were sure that he had a huge tumor, which presses on the diaphragm. But what was their surprise when out of his they took out the womb of the mutated body of his twin brother.
Ivan UKHOV
