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Fetus in fetu (or foetus in foetu) is a rare developmental abnormality in which a mass of tissue resembling a fetus forms inside the body of its twin. An early example of the phenomenon was described in 1808 by George William Young. [1] There are two hypotheses for the origin of a fetus in fetu.
When 45-year-old Jenny Kavanagh visited doctors to have a contraceptive coil implanted, doctors discovered an undeveloped unborn twin growing inside her. The twin was discovered when medics ...
The twin reversed arterial perfusion, or T.R.A.P. sequence, results in an 'acardiac twin', a parasitic twin that fails to develop a head, arms and a heart.The parasitic twin, little more than a torso with or without legs, receives its blood supply from the host twin by means of an umbilical cord-like structure, much like a fetus in fetu, except the acardiac twin is outside the autosite's body.
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A vanishing twin, also known as twin resorption, is a fetus in a multigestation pregnancy that dies in utero and is then partially or completely reabsorbed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In some instances, the dead twin is compressed into a flattened, parchment-like state known as fetus papyraceus .
Doctors find 'twin' growing inside 17-year-old girl's stomach. ... doctors were able to successfully remove the 12-by-6-by-4-inch mass — the largest FIF ever removed — from the girl's body.
A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...
The phenomenon where someone carries a twin inside them is called fetus in fetu. It happens in approximately 1 in 500,000 births. ... The human body is pretty good at working with what it’s got ...