9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach

[hurlmon]

LINK (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ABSORBED_TWIN?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- 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 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.

Freaky

[A.J.]

What a gut-wrenching story.

[hammersavage]

If she had waited, would her first time had counted as a 3-way?

[Kris10]

So then the fetus was 9 yrs old?? Ugh!

[FUNKMAN]

was the twins name Roberta, "cause she's small"... in high squelchy voice

[Dougie Brootal]

this thread is useless without pics

[grlNIN]

The thing that is worse than hearing you have a fetus in your tummy is that it has hair and eyes.

Oh man that little girl will be fucked up for life, i hope they didn't tell her what it was.

[paracetamol flanders]

A friend of mine had an identical twin brother (now dead, sadly) who was having some trouble breathing many years back. Said twin went to the doctor to check it out. The doctor said: "The good news: it's not cancer. The weird news: you have a vestigial triplet in your lung." The twin brother's later death was not lung-brother related.

[FUNKMAN]

in west virginia sister's eat each other all the time...












i keed

[Melissa the Accountant]

They just ruined any chances that girl had of becoming a famous novelist. The sparrows will never fly again. :(

[Dude!]

you'd get more responses if you titled the thread

greek cannibal girl devours fetus

[Skellington]

Fetus in Fetu
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:vX7uxSGAZwkJ:www.leemsilver.net/CNmedia/images/teratoma-jpg%252520%252520003.jpg

It's no longer a fetus because it does not have working organs, it's just a parasite.

Also, there's Chimera's, one person that carries two different types of blood cells, or two genetically different types of cells, normally spawns from sharing blood supply with a twin that died in utero. When a Chimera has a child, the child normally presents different DNA from the mother, which can present problems in DNA testing.....