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Old March 29th 06, 12:18 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/..._fetus_in_baby

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl
Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still
in her mother's womb, a doctor said.
The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, was in critical condition
following the two-hour operation at The Children's Hospital at Pakistan
Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad, said Zaheer Abbasi,
head of pediatric surgery at the hospital.
Abbasi, the chief doctor who led the operation, said the case was the first
he was aware of in Pakistan of fetus-in-fetu, where a fetus has grown inside
another in the womb.

"It is extremely rare to have two fetuses being discovered inside another,"
Abbasi told The Associated Press, adding that he did not know what caused
the medical abnormality. "Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the
siblings grew in the other."

The baby comes from Abbotabad, about 30 miles north of Islamabad. She is the
fifth child of a woman in her 30s, who was at the hospital to be with her
daughter. Her father works in the Arabian Gulf.

Abbasi said surgeons removed the two partially grown fetuses, totaling about
two pounds, that had died at about 4 months.

Other fetus-in-fetu cases have been reported elsewhere in the world. A
report in a June 2000 issue of the U.S. journal Pediatrics called such
occurrences rare and estimated their rate at about 1 per 500,000 births


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/..._fetus_in_baby

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl
Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was

still
in her mother's womb, a doctor said.


Wow. I have never heard of that!

JennP.


 




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