9-year-old girl's twin found in her stomach...

[Spunky]

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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 about six centimeters (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.

Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080515/D90M2C9O0.html

Wow. That's ****ed up.
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[LionHeart]

Haven't I heard about this before? Twin in the other twins belly. Like 2 or 3 times before.

 

[Dzamija]

What. The. ****.

I seriously feel sorry for that family right now. Having another being inside them, that's ****ed up...

 

[Spunky]

Lion, that was most likely a different story.

I just think it's kind of ****ed up that it had hair and eyes. Creepy ****. Like gnomes living inside of you. >_>

 

[Grega]

Having another being inside them, that's ****ed up...

Is that how your mom felt when she was carying you?

In any case. As long as everything went OK its fine. And as long as the family name stays hidden so the journalist sharks cant get them they should be fine.

 

[Nuttzy]

“I shall call him… Mini Me"

 

[Dzamija]

Is that how your mom felt when she was carying you?

In any case. As long as everything went OK its fine. And as long as the family name stays hidden so the journalist sharks cant get them they should be fine.

My mom was 31 and I actually had an umbilical cord ^^

 

[SailorAlea]

Good thing they removed it before it violently burst through her chest like in Aliens. [/insensitive comment]

 

[-Origin]

I lolled. Thanks Alea.

 

[MinioN]

This is proof that Greeks are ****ed up.Lol this is weird

 

[-Origin]

It has nothing to do with her being Greek.

 

[Mr.Lukyas]

Didn't know something like that is possible. Nice ****ed up info.

 

[Tenzo]

Nice ****ed up info.

Dude,are you serious?? :\

About the news; it's pretty nasty,that's for sure!

 

[Mr.Lukyas]

Dude,are you serious?? :\

Am I serious about it being an info, or about it being ****ed up thing, or maybe both?

 

[LionHeart]

Lion, that was most likely a different story.

I just think it's kind of ****ed up that it had hair and eyes. Creepy ****. Like gnomes living inside of you. >_>

Probably, oh and nails too.

 

[Adaptus]

It didn't have a brain (it says so in the article) so it technically wasn't a being.

Glad she got it removed.

 

[Dzamija]

It has nothing to do with her being Greek.

Macedonians and Greeks don't like each other too much, that's why he made the comment. Some historical event about the Macedonians getting a piece of land that originally belonged to the Greeks.

 

[Mr.Lukyas]

Macedonians and Greeks don't like each other too much, that's why he made the comment. Some historical event about the Macedonians getting a piece of land that originally belonged to the Greeks.

AFAIK Greeks believe Macedonia should be part of Greece. I think they even do not consider Macedonia as country...

 

[Zeonix]

It should be the other way around. Alexander rocked Greece.

 

[Dokutayuu]

Avoiding the topic of a Greco-Macedonian War...

It's amazing how complex the body is though, the slightest things can have serious effects. To think, it could have ended up with two normal twins...