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Re: FETUSINFETU: Fetus in fetu/Taratomas-Dermoid cyst - vanishing twin scenario

From: Amy Rosenman, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:03 -0600 (CST)

Message posted on Amy Rosenman, M.D. behalf by: Hope Waltman, Women’s Health Forum Moderator

It sounds like there are 2 different issues here. Being the survivor of a vanishing twin scenario indicates that there were 2 fetuses when you were in your mother's uterus, one did not survive and was reabsorbed or passed by your mother. The Dermoid cyst you developed at age 16 also known as a benign teratoma, is not related to this. It is a germ cell tumor of the ovary, a tumor of the cells that form the eggs and meet up with sperm to form a fetus. These germ cells have the potential to form all kinds of tissue and often form teeth, bone, hair, skin sometimes brain like tissue or thryoid that can actually put out thyroid hormone and interfere with growth and development. This is not as freaky as it may have seemed to you, 2 separate events, not related to each other. When the dermoid (teratoma) is removed, that is the end of it, no long term problems except that they can be bilateral 15% of the time. Feel better, you are not a freak! 

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Amy Rosenman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor GYN
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Santa Monica, California


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At Sun, 18 Jan 2009, ELW wrote:
>
>I am a 53 yr.  old woman, and the surviving twin of the Vanished twin
>Syndrome.  At 16 I was put on birth control for irregular periods.  A
>few months later my OBGYN became concerned at swelling in my abdomen,
>and over all health rapidly declining w/in a few months of starting the
>birth control.  By the time he decided surgery was nessecary, I looked 6
>months pregnant.
>It was found during surgery, where my left ovary should have been, a
>very large "tumor", or so it appeared.  It was sent to pathology and
>found to contain a fetus of sorts.  Hair, bones,and the start of limbs.
>No brain or organs were found in it.
>Once this was removed from me it was like a total transformation in me.
>I started to grow, develop breasts, and shape to my body.  Up until this
>point I was considered under developed for my age.
>I have read everything I can find on this disorder and know I am one in
>55,000 births this happens in.  It isn't a fact about myself I have
>acknowledge to others as we are viewed by the public as extreme oddities
>or "freaks".
>My concern lies with any follow up studies in this of any medical
>conditions that will result later in life ? Have genetics been totally
>ruled out as a factor for this happening?



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