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

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

May 15 03:52 PM US/Eastern


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.

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[Buck Laser]

Philip K. Dick, one of my favorite science fiction writers, had a novel that had an imbedded twin. I read it, but can't remember the name. It was a very dark book as I recall.

[Pookie]

My Gods! I don't blame the family for not wanting to be identified. I wonder if the Mom took fertility drugs to get pregnant? I wonder if that might have caused it?
Purrs,
Pookie

[Buck Laser]

My Gods! I don't blame the family for not wanting to be identified. I wonder if the Mom took fertility drugs to get pregnant? I wonder if that might have caused it?
Purrs,
Pookie
I think this is just one of those things that happens sometimes, Pookie, like birth defects. I'd guess that Philip Dick got the idea from an earlier report of a similar occurrence in his story, and that would have been before fertility drugs.