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Doctors in India
were surprised when they discovered a malformed
fetus of his unborn twin inside the teenage boy’s stomach.
For a period of time, Narendra Kumar, 18,
was suffering from abdominal pain, weight loss, and
vomiting. Eventually he was taken to Narayan Swaroop Hospital in Uttar
Pradesh in India. After a testing, doctors discovered a 20-centimeter (7.8-inch), 2.5-kilogram (5.5-pound) mass of bone, hair, and teeth in his abdomen.
On close inspection, doctors made the grim discovery that a 2.5kg mass of bone, hair and teeth had formed an umbilical cord-like formation inside the young man’s abdomen.
The developmental abnormality called “fetus in
fetus” - a rare condition which develops during pregnancy with twins – where one
fetus enters the other through the umbilical cord, and ends up living there as a parasite.
Doctors at the Swaroop Narayan Hospital in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, told Narendra that the parasite had lived and grown inside his body since his birth.
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