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Man carried fetus of twin for 36 yearsFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Fri Aug 25 12:24:22 2006
.. Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years; fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060824-111050-4855r NAGPUR, India, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Doctors in India say an abdominal tumor in a 36-year-old man turned out to be the fetus of the man's twin brother. Sanju Bhagat told ABC Primetime's "Medical Mysteries" he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big stomach. In 1999, the farmer from Nagpur, India, was rushed to the hospital because he couldn't breathe. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate. Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Bombay said he found a fetus inside Bhagat's stomach. It turned out to be the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother. Bhagat, they discovered, had a rare condition called fetus in fetu that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus forms an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, the TV program reported. Mehta said there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature.
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