Message: 1
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:25:08 -0500
From: Steve Cochran <yahoo@...>
Subject: Fwd: [va-dc-doulas] Fetus inside a 10-day old baby ?

Here's a novelty...


>Subject: [va-dc-doulas] Fetus inside a 10-day old baby ?
>Reply-To: Katuscha@...
>
>Very strange news about a twin pregnancy...
>
>Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Jordanian doctors have reportedly extracted
>a fetus from a girl who was only recently one herself, a 10-day-old
infant
>who now occupies a strange and rare place in medical history.
>
>Newspapers Thursday, displaying color pictures of the tiny baby and
the
>fetus after the operation, quoted a senior surgeon at the government-
run
>al-Bashir Hospital in Amman as saying the infant was in good health
and
>discharged from hospital.
>
>Mazen Naseer, head of the pediatric surgery department at the
hospital, was
>reported as saying the fetus was linked with an umbilical cord to
the baby's
>liver. He said the umbilical cord contained an artery that supplied
blood to
>the fetus.
>
>The papers did not say when the operation was conducted nor revealed
the
>name of the infant or family.
>
>The surgeon said the fetus was found inside a membrane within the
infant's
>belly. He added that the membrane also contained liquid.
>
>Naseer said the baby's mother had suspected something was wrong with
her
>child when she discovered her belly was swollen and took her to the
>physician for tests.
>
>The doctor described the medical case as "very rare," adding that
only about
>70 such cases have been reported worldwide.
>
>Naseer said there were several theories explaining this phenomenon,
but that
>the "most acceptable one is that the fetus was a twin of the baby.
But as a
>result of an abnormality during the development process, the fetus
was
>probably contained (absorbed) inside the belly of the other."
>
>The condition, called fetus in fetu, often results in a calcified
mass and
>can be mistaken at first for a tumor. But in some cases, the
absorbed twin
>retains a discernable shape with head and developing limbs, hair or
even
>facial features.
>
>
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>
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