Girl's twin found inside her stomach
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TMilw1
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surprised
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05/16/2008 10:11:39
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A nine-year-old girl who went to
hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her
embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday. Doctors
at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a
growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more
than two inches) long. "They could see on the right side that her
belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor 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 fetus 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 occur in one of 500,000 live births. The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/15/girl.twin.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
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