a reminder fo the twin discussion we had some time ago:
from Sydney Morning Herald
May 16, 2008 - 8:50AM
A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from
stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said.
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 tumour 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 foetus 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.
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