Nine Year Old Girl's Twin Found Inside Her Stomach

ATHENS, Greece — 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 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.

Comments

[fetacheese]

wow....this is so my big fat greek wedding...."yes, it was my twin"!

on a more serious note, that's pretty traumatic for a 9-year old...poor kid :(

[cpscscs]

This case is similar to the.Stephen King novel The Dark Half in some respects. The movie starred Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan.

[larryfishkorn]

This phenomenom was well-documented in the 1982 film Basket Case.

[David57]

Calling all right-to-lifers, lets hear your opinion on this! How does this differ from a
"snow-flake" embryo - in that doctors might have tried to save this life by implanting it
into someone's uterus? Apparently it was somewhat developed. Well?

[MissAngela]

Don't think that's air-tight.
pro choice, btw

[Hirnlego]

Reminds me of Tom Waits song Poor Edward

Did you hear the news about Edward?
On the back of his head
He had another face
Was it a woman's face
Or a young girl
They said to remove it would kill him
So poor Edward was doomed
The Face could laugh and cry
It was his Devil twin
And at night she spoke to him
Of things heard only in hell
They were impossible to separate
Chained together for life
Finally the bell tolled his doom
He took a suit of rooms
And hung himself and her
From the balcony irons
Some still believe he was freed from her
But i knew her too well
I say she drove him to suicide
And took Poor Edward to Hell

[kellygrrrl]

I think I have an evil twin inside me sometimes. It usually makes itself known about the 28th of the month.

:)

[Nova16]

There is a another documented case in the Middle East and Great Britain with the same occurence only this time it involved a young boy carrying his twin which had all its parts wrapped into a hair ball. The youngster appeared to be pregnant and the twin was removed without complications.

[gurukalehuru]

Gadzooks! She ate her sister (or brother). That girl is a survivor far and above the majority of the human race.

Seriously, I wish her a speedy recovery, and totally understand the families desire for privacy.

[rbspickles]

I've heard of this before but it still gives me the willies just thinking about it. Poor girl.

[HatingTheGame]

Man, and evangelicalistas should have a field day with this. Must be some end-times message, or perhaps the Greeks being punished for being light in the loafer types during the Greco-Roman period, or maybe punishment for pre-Christian sins or something.

Or something stupid like that.

[AnnieChrist]

You used the terms evangelical and stupid in the same comment. English teachers call that redundancy.

[kellygrrrl]

exactly

[jubo]

Well isn't this something else.

So when was... or how did... egad this is too much to fathom. Extraordinary. If true.

[synergie]

It is entirely plausible tune into Discovery Health every now and then, they have a couple of documentaries on the phenomenon, called fetus in fetu, where one monozygotic twin absorbs another.

[YellowPanties]

Yikes!

[gcallaghan]

"The girl's family did not want to be identified"

I can't imagine why not.

[Wanjiru]

...egads!...

WOW!

.

[VABlueMom]

Jeez...could you remove the picture that accompanies this article? A sensuous photo of a pregnant woman hardly seems appropriate to a story about a nine-year-old girl who had a calcified embryo surgically removed. She was NOT pregnant.

[theidaexpress]

Trust someone to complain about the picture. You are just the type of pervert who thought Miley's photos were "sensuous". If you seriously got sexual gratification out of that photo, you need some therapy.
http://www.theidaexpress.com
P.S. You don't know that 9 year old wasn't pregnant. It is possible!

[YellowPanties]

1. Pregnant women are often very sexy.

2. A naked teenage girl holding a sheet up to hide her nakedness, and looking like she has just woken up from having the shagging of her life, can also in fact be "sensuous."

3. Maybe in your corner of the world, 9 year olds get pregnant every day, and hey, maybe that's part of your own personal history, but in the civilized world, it's not the first thing we conclude after reading an article like this one.

4. Keep posting the link to your site: I'm sure droves of people will be eager to read more of your ridiculous bollocks!

[darcy]

The word you guys are looking for is sensual, not sensuous. Sensuous means relating to touch; sensual means sexy.

[cobraxus]

it's called a stone baby or calcified fetus when it's found in the mother(outside her uterus).

[ibsteve2u]

Hey, there's a possibility...Dubya was a twin, but he absorbed the moral one that had a soul...

[rini]

No,

the guy who absorbed his good twin is Cheney. I think he ate it, with a bottle of Chianti.

[kellygrrrl]

I hate when the Evil Twin wins!

[rini]

"Remember, the evil twin is always on the left." - Dr. Hibbert
"Wait, Bart's scar is on the right side" - Marge
That means....

"Why is everyone acting so surprised?" - Bart

[darcy]

Good one, ibsteve2u!

[cc]

Yeeeehaw!!

[nopartygal]

"...he absorbed the moral one that had a soul..."

...and a brain.

[Hare]

...and a sense of humor

[ChescoRes]

DOUBLE creepy!!

I'm glad she's OK.

[theidaexpress]

Couldn't she just have been pregnant and they have said it was her twin to get money out of it? 9 year olds can get pregnant.
http://www.theidaexpress.com

[Hare]

I did read sometime ago of a nine year old pregnant girl ...due to incest , so I see your questioning argument but this one seems not to be a fregnancy case because the place where the fetus were found doesn't qualify for pregnancy.

[kellygrrrl]

good God! you are ignorant!

[darcy]

The fetus was in her abdomen, not her uturus, theidaexpress.

[synergie]

Its called fetus in fetu, its not some 9 year old floozy lying about her baby. Get a grip.

[going2ireland]

Crass and no class!

[GrandpaMcCain]

Creeeeeepy!