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Teratology: Teratomas & Parasitic Twins (WARNING)

Surgeons remove two fetuses from infant

Two-month-old Pakistani girl in critical condition after operation

The Associated Press
Updated: 6:56 p.m. ET March 28, 2006

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, a doctor said.

The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, was in critical condition following the two-hour operation at The Children's Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad, said Zaheer Abbasi, head of pediatric surgery at the hospital.

Abbasi, the chief doctor who led the operation, said the case was the first he was aware of in Pakistan of fetus-in-fetu, where a fetus has grown inside another in the womb.

"It is extremely rare to have two fetuses being discovered inside another," Abbasi told The Associated Press, adding that he did not know what caused the medical abnormality. "Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other."

The baby comes from Abbotabad, about 30 miles north of Islamabad. She is the fifth child of a woman in her 30s, who was at the hospital to be with her daughter. Her father works in the Arabian Gulf.

Abbasi said surgeons removed the two partially grown fetuses, totaling about two pounds, that had died at about 4 months.

Other fetus-in-fetu cases have been reported elsewhere in the world. A report in a June 2000 issue of the U.S. journal Pediatrics called such occurrences rare and estimated their rate at about 1 per 500,000 births.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
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Pregnancies can result in a massive amount of wierd and wonderful abnormalities. Basically whatever you think can go wrong, can. A twin that has no upper body, conjoined twins, foetus in foetu, embryos implanting external to the uterus, molar pregnancy, no brain, open neural canal (spinal cord) which is a form of spina bifida, no kidneys, blind ended gullet or rectum. Hundreds upon hundreds of chromosome abnormalities (syndromes),

If you ever witnessed a anatomy library (things in jars) in a teaching hospital you would be amazed. it is bizarre. Teratomas are usually found in gonadal tissue. In ovaries or testicles. and yes they do contain hair and teeth...freaky.
 
This was the one mentioned in the recent FT which is nearly identical to the baby from Dolakha mentioned above.

Frog-shaped infant surprises hospital staff

Yemen Times Staff


TAIZ- Dec.5- Doctors and nurses at Al-Jomhouri Hospital were surprised on Monday morning while delivering a newborn who was shaped as a frog. The mother, 18, who requested not to be identified, attributed the strange shape to the consumption of drugs during her pregnancy without consulting the physician.

According to her, the medicines she used to take were indisposed analgesics under the term of Vulturine and others without visiting doctors because there isn't any health unit in her locality or close to her residence. The lady was compelled by her relatives to buy analgesics from grocers in the neighborhood.

Nevertheless, the lady had visited the hospital one month prior to her delivery as she has been suffering from severe pains in the left side of her abdomen, the pain was severe to the extent that she was unable to sit down, and made her relatives take her to the hospital with the belief that she had kidney-related problems. After diagnosing her, physicians discovered that the fetus was dead and has congenital deformity and the mother was in a condition of parturition.
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It is indeed Mighty Emp.

Basically, if you do not develop a brain (anencephaly). You do not develop the bony structure to protect it, i.e. the skull.

Sadly this baby has this condition and therefore has a big chunk missing where its skull and brain should be. Normally the mother miscarries the child or has a termination. But, as usual, the media get hold of a story and twist it to be a 'FROG BABY' that has been born.

It is also, as you can imagine, never compatable with life.
 
Boy born with fetus in his stomach

Condition occurs in 1 in 500,000 live births

Reuters
Updated: 2:13 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2006

SANTIAGO, Chile - A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of "fetus in fetu" in which one twin becomes trapped inside another during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it.

Doctors carried out a scan on the boy's mother shortly before she gave birth on Nov. 15 in the southern city of Temuco and noticed the 4-inch-long fetus inside the boy's abdomen.

It had limbs and a partially developed spinal cord but no head and stood no chance of survival, doctors said.

After the birth, doctors operated and removed the fetus from the boy's stomach. The boy, who has not been named, was recovering at Temuco's Hernan Henriquez hospital.

"It's very rare," said Maria Angelica Belmar, head of the hospital's neonatal wing, speaking of fetus in fetu cases.

"It occurs in only one in every 500,000 live births," she told Reuters, adding that the number of cases recorded worldwide was fewer than 90.

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Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.
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witchflame said:
It is indeed Mighty Emp.

Basically, if you do not develop a brain (anencephaly). You do not develop the bony structure to protect it, i.e. the skull.

Sadly this baby has this condition and therefore has a big chunk missing where its skull and brain should be. Normally the mother miscarries the child or has a termination. But, as usual, the media get hold of a story and twist it to be a 'FROG BABY' that has been born.

It is also, as you can imagine, never compatable with life.
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Unfortunately, sometimes there is sufficient rudimentary brain tissue for the baby to survive for a while, as in this http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8210 case. What an awful position for the parents and the hospital staff to be in.
 
Girl, 9, carrying twin's foetus in her stomach
By Sally Peck and agencies
Last Updated: 1:07PM BST 16/05/2008

A nine-year-old girl who was taken to hospital suffering stomach pains was found to be carrying the foetus of her undeveloped twin, doctors said.

Surgeons in the Greek city of Larissa discovered the six-centimetre (two inch) foetus when the young girl was brought to hospital, complaining of a stomach ache.

"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumour would hide an embryo," said Iakovos Brouskelis, the hospital's director.

Surgeons removed the "tumour", which was a foetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord, and the girl has made a full recovery.

Foetus in foetu, a rare disorder of embryonic development in which one twin is absorbed by the other in the womb, living off it as a parasite, occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

In 2003, doctors in Kazakhstan treated seven-year-old Alamjan Nematilaev, who complained that he felt something moving inside of him. When surgeons operated, they found his "twin", which had a head, hair, genitals and a partially-formed face.

In 2006, a Chilean boy was born in the southern city of Temuco with a four-in-long-foetus inside his abdomen.

Doctors remain unsure as to what causes the condition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... omach.html
 
Surgeon finds foot in baby's brain
American neurosurgeon discovers tiny body parts while removing tumour from newborn

* Associated Press
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 December 2008 10.53 GMT

An American surgeon found a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts inside a tumour he removed from an infant's brain.

Dr Paul Grabb, a paediatric neurosurgeon, said he operated on Sam Esquibel at Memorial Hospital for Children, Colorado Springs, after an MRI scan showed a microscopic tumour on the newborn's brain. Sam was three days old and otherwise healthy.

Grabb said that while removing the growth he discovered it contained a nearly perfect foot and the formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh.

"It looked like the breach delivery of a baby coming out of the brain," Grabb said. "To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of."

Grabb was not sure what caused the growth but said it may have been a type of congenital brain tumour. However, such tumours were usually less complex, he said.

The growth may also have been a case of "fetus in fetu" in which a fetal twin begins to form within another. But such cases very rarely occurred in the brain, Grabb said.

Sam's parents, Tiffnie and Manuel Esquibel, said their son was at home now but faced monthly blood tests to check for signs of cancer or regrowth, along with physical therapy to improve the use of his neck. They said he had mostly recovered from the surgery.

"You'd never know if he didn't have a scar there," his mother said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/de ... baby-brain

(great name for a surgeon - Paul Grabb!)
 
ramonmercado said:
Foot loose and fancy free.
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LOL!! :p

Sounds to me like "fetus in fetu"--but I admit I never heard of it located in anyone's brain before!

Very, very weird! :shock:
 
This sounds like a cerebral teratoma rather than a fetus in fetu. As teratoma are commonly fatal, (dependant on size and position) this baby has been very lucky.
 
A teenager is finally getting medical help after living her entire life with two extra arms and fingers dangling from her chest.

Veronica Cominguez, 14, was born with the limbs and an oblong-shaped torso growing from her chest in Iligan City, Philippines.

The extra parts - belonging to a parasitic twin which did not develop properly - have continued to grow with her.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/girl-14-twin-sister-growing-13002555
 
This Indian woman's teratoma / fetus in fetu condition wasn't diagnosed (and resolved) until she was 17 years old.
A Woman Lived with a 'Twin' Inside Her for 17 Years Without Knowing

A young woman in India unknowingly lived with one of the rarest and most unsettling medical conditions for nearly two decades, her doctors say. According to a case report out this week, the woman had a sac containing her still-growing “twin” lodged in her abdomen for 17 years. The twin had hair, teeth, and even a spine.

Formally known as fetus in fetu, the condition is thought to happen when one fetal twin gets enveloped by the other very early in pregnancy. The fetus doesn’t go on to develop its own nervous system and brain, but it’s still capable of living. And it sustains itself through its sibling, essentially becoming a parasite. Another theory holds that the second “fetus” is actually a complex form of tumor called a teratoma; these tumors can develop different types of tissues at once, including hair and teeth. ...

Prior to this case, according to the woman’s doctors, there had been only seven other reported cases of adults living with a fetal twin. And up until now, they had all been men.

The woman’s ordeal, detailed by her doctors in BMJ Case Reports, really began five years before she visited them. That’s when she and her family first noticed she had a hard, misshapen lump around her abdomen. Over the next five years, the lump gradually grew in size and caused her pain periodically. By the time the then-17-year-old visited the doctors, she wasn’t able to eat much before feeling full, likely because the lump had started to press on her internal organs. ...

On the initial physical examination, the lump was suspected to be a tumor. Which in a sense, it was. But when they ran a CAT scan on the lump, they found deposits of calcium that looked like “the shape of vertebrae, ribs and long bones,” and the more grisly truth was finally uncovered. The doctors then went to work removing it.

According to the report, the contents of the tumor “consisted of hairs, mature bones and other body parts.” These body parts included “multiple teeth and structures resembling limb buds.” Its sheer size—36×16×10 centimeters—would also make it the largest ever found in a case of adult fetus in fetu.

Thankfully, with the mass gone, the woman had a speedy and uneventful recovery, and two years later is still doing well. ...
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FULL STORY: https://gizmodo.com/a-woman-lived-with-a-twin-inside-her-for-17-years-witho-1837313259

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https://www.livescience.com/teens-twin-found-inside-adbomen-fetus-in-fetu.html
 
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Scientists Find a Tumor Made of Teeth in The Pelvis of an Ancient Egyptian


If it weren't for the careful eyes of an excavator, working at an ancient underground tomb in Egypt, archaeologists may never have found it: a lonely tooth, nestled in the curve of a worn-down pelvis.

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Stevens, Wetzel and Dabbs claim to have found the oldest evidence of a mature ovarian teratoma, or germ cell tumor.

Today, the mass looks like a calcified clump of disorganized and fully formed tissues, like bone and teeth.

It measures roughly 3 by 2 centimeters (0.8 by 1.2 inches) in dimension and dates back to the mid-14th century BC.

The young female was found buried in a multi-chambered tomb at Amarna's North Desert Cemetery and was probably 18 to 21 years of age when she died.

This particular individual, the researchers say, had a gold ring on her left hand that sat close to the tumor. It was illustrated with an image of Bes, an ancient Egyptian deity associated with fertility and protection.

While just a hypothesis, the authors say it is conceivable that this ring position was purposeful and that the Bes ring might have been used to address the pain felt in this part of the body or "perceived issues of infertility".

https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...of-teeth-in-the-pelvis-of-an-ancient-egyptian

maximus otter
 
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