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Re: Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri Aug 25 13:52:46 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: prolonged PP fever" Previous message: Dean Huffman .: "Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years" "The sparrows are flying again." Stephen King, "The Dark Half" Art At Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Dean Huffman . wrote: > >. > >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. -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: prolonged PP fever" Previous message: Dean Huffman .: "Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years"

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