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Baby born ‘pregnant’ with his twin
A baby in India was born “pregnant” with his half-formed twin in a rare case that has astonished the medical fraternity in the country. Radiologist Bhavna Thorat said some mass with the presence of bones was discovered early July in the then foetus’ abdomen during a routine scan of the 19-year-old pregnant mother. “In the post-natal scans, we spotted another half-formed baby with a brain, arm and legs in a foetal sac in the baby’s abdomen. “The mother had conceived twins. “But here a twin got enveloped in the body of another twin, leading to a condition of a host baby and its parasitic twin, who grew up to 13 weeks and then stopped. “This was a rare case of foetus-in-foetus, a congenital anomaly in which a malformed and parasitic foetus grows inside the body of a baby,’’ Thorat added. After his birth on July 20 at Bilal Hospital in Thane, near the western city of Mumbai, the baby underwent surgery rece...
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