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A similar anomaly is usually diagnosed after surviving twin is born, although it was some terrible cases where "internal" twin could not be detected until adulthood or death survivor. Fortunately, the fruit in the fruit - the phenomenon is extremely rare and occurs in only one case out of 500 thousand. Sometimes fails to diagnose the fetus to fetus during pregnancy the mother - then, as a rule, immediately made an operation to remove, and then a second child wears.

In 2008, the medical journal "Monitoring" published an article about the two-month baby with fetal abnormalities in the fetus - absorbed twin rooted to the child and the right kidney was a "bag of clear liquid." It weighed 220 grams and its size was about 10 cm in diameter. "Bag" was completely covered with intact skin and had two malformed lower limbs with four rudimentary fingers, as well as the lungs, liver and spleen. After removal of the "brother" of the second baby survived and now lead a completely normal life.

In 2012, another magazine published a story about a four-month boy whose twin was imprisoned in "a grayish-white membrane" in his stomach. During surgery to remove it was found that the absorbed twin developed vertebrae and femur, tibia and small tibia. Even earlier, in 1974, in the stomach of six boys showed a twin, which was formed half a skull and the brain, but were underdeveloped hands and feet, and phalanges.

In contrast to the first three children for whom their twin generally does not pose great danger, in India in 2007, he entered the boy to the hospital with respiratory failure. During surgery to remove the twin revealed serious Details: absorbed twin had the head and torso, skin and small bulge where had formed limbs, as well as the rudiments of the central nervous system.

But the worst history of this anomaly is the case with the child, born May 18, 1807-year. Shortly after the birth of his belly bulge there, over the next month, he was constantly ill and suffered from frequent vomiting, and his urine was green. By January 1808, the year he became a "real skeleton upholstered in leather," and continued to lose weight. The tumor in his stomach grew rapidly until finally he reached 90 cm in diameter. After the boy died, the autopsy showed that inside it was a twin. The doctor described it as:

"This monster was covered with a sticky substance, which is often on the skin of newly born babies. When it was removed, the creature beneath it appeared bright and healthy skin as a living baby. His short and thick limbs were plump and fixed almost in the same position, which is usually the fetus in the womb. However, above the shoulders, on the site of the head, it was a dark-red fleshy mass ».

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