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Re: Possible twin found in baby From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Wed Mar 18 12:21:36 1998 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: HHodesmd: "Re: OB:PPROM at 19 weeks. home or hospital?" Previous message: Gary Kleinman: "Re: Varicella" In reply to: Jack Lau: "Re: Looking for IUPC standard guideline" per Stephen King, in THE DARK HALF, "The sparrows are flying again." This element of fetus in fetu is featured prominently in this novel. art At Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Suzanne S. Powell, ICCE wrote: > >03:17 PM ET 03/13/98 >Colombia doctors find possible twin inside baby > > BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian doctors trying to remove a >suspected tumor from the abdomen of a 4-month-old baby instead >discovered a well-formed fetus -- possibly the baby's twin. > Staff at the Rafael Urbina clinic in Cali, 155 miles > southeast of Bogota, said Friday the rare discovery was made >during an operation Monday on a baby boy with a swollen midriff. > ``The child is recovering well, although he needed a blood >transfusion after the fetus had been removed,'' a pediatric >nurse at the clinic told Reuters. > Doctors said it was the first case in Colombia of a medical >condition known as ``fetus in fetus'' and one of less than 100 >worldwide. > ``You could see its feet, a slightly-deformed skull ... a >poorly-defined face, back and genitals,'' Dr. Freddy Orozco, who >took part in the operation, was quoted as saying by El >Espectador newspaper Friday. > ``It wasn't alive as such, its heart wasn't beating, but it >did have live tissue because its hair was growing,'' he said. > Doctors said the six-inch long embryo had survived by >attaching itself to a vein within the baby's intestines. > The most probable theory, they said, was that the fetus was >a twin absorbed by the other inside the mother's womb. > ^REUTERS@ > >-- >**************************************************************************** >* > >Suzanne S. Powell, ICCE >childbirth educator & labor doula >Peachtree City, Ga. > -- art fougner, md SonoScan/Genetic Sciences forest hills, ny evsono@pipeline.com Next message: HHodesmd: "Re: OB:PPROM at 19 weeks. home or hospital?" Previous message: Gary Kleinman: "Re: Varicella" In reply to: Jack Lau: "Re: Looking for IUPC standard guideline"

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