A 2-year-old in China is reported to have "given birth" to
the undeveloped fetus of his twin.
Xiao Feng, of Huaxi, was taken to the hospital after his
parents noticed he had a bloated stomach and was having
trouble breathing, Fox News reported Monday.
Doctors found that Feng was carrying an undeveloped fetus
inside his stomach, and removed it through emergency
surgery, according to Inquisitr's translation of newscast
from a China Central Television, a state-run media outlet.
The fetus, doctors say, was Feng's twin. Identical twins
occur when a fertilized egg splits in two. Conjoined twins
occur when a fertilized egg begins to split, but fails to do so
completely. In Feng's case, the fetus was his conjoined twin
that had been absorbed into his body inside the womb.
Doctors surgically removed the fetus, noting that Feng
would have died if the parasitic twin hadn't been removed.
The dead fetus was about 10 inches wide and had a fully-
formed spine and limbs.
Is this case too bizarre to be believed? Maybe, but the same
thing happened last year in Peru, when a three-year-old boy
was found to be carrying his parasitic twin brother inside of
him, according to CBS News.
In 2008, there was a similar case involving 9-year-old in
Greece. The girl was diagnosed with a tumor that turned
out to be concealing the undeveloped embryo of her
parasitic twin, Medical News Today reported.
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