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(@sailor-rose-dust)
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Two Fetuses Removed From Infant Girl's Body

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, a doctor said.

The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, was in critical condition following the two-hour operation at The Children's Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad, said Zaheer Abbasi, head of pediatric surgery at the hospital.

Abbasi, the chief doctor who led the operation, said the case was the first he was aware of in Pakistan of fetus-in-fetu, where a fetus has grown inside another in the womb.

``It is extremely rare to have two fetuses being discovered inside another,'' Abbasi told The Associated Press, adding that he did not know what caused the medical abnormality. ``Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other.''

The baby comes from Abbotabad, about 30 miles north of Islamabad. She is the fifth child of a woman in her 30s, who was at the hospital to be with her daughter. Her father works in the Arabian Gulf.

Abbasi said surgeons removed the two partially grown fetuses, totaling about two pounds, that had died at about 4 months.

Other fetus-in-fetu cases have been reported elsewhere in the world. A report in a June 2000 issue of the U.S. journal Pediatrics called such occurrences rare and estimated their rate at about 1 per 500,000 births.


It's just...horrible. The poor girl had her siblings inside of her.

 
(@Anonymous)
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It's actually a lot more common than you think.
A lot of children and adults have "tumours" analyzed and they turn out to be dead twins, complete with tiny sets of teeth.

Talk about ew.

 
(@rico-underwood)
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Sorry, had to. But on topic... eeewww...

~Rico

 
(@sandygunfox)
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Creepy.

 
(@nuchtos)
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Once I saw a TV show about the wierdest things found inside the human body. The last thing they showed was a case similar to this, where a guy had a dead twin inside him, but it wasn't quite dead and carried on growing. However, for ages everyone just thought he was really fat, but eventually doctors realised and operated to have the thing removed. It was just like a massive, deformed lump of flush. Quite unpleasant, really.

 
(@antipode)
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Nuchtos: It looked something like this. (Link warning for sexy ads an' junk? Just in case.)

 
(@Anonymous)
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Why do fetuses pull these pranks.

 
(@Anonymous)
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They want the illusion of control acrio.

 
(@chibibecca_1722585688)
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you guys never heard of this before..? oo

yeah, i think i saw the same programme as nuch, the little boy's stomach was massive! the twin inside him was draining him as well, as it was still 'alive'.

 
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