A Chinese girl was born "pregnant." During the examination of the newborn, doctors found parasitic twins inside her. In the cavity of the baby, legs, arms, spine, chest and intestines were visible.
The child was only three weeks old when she had to go through the first operation in her short life to remove parasitic relatives. One of the twins weighed 14.2 grams and the other 9.3 grams. Moreover, each of them had an umbilical cord. The operation was successful and the girl was discharged from the hospital after eight days.
This is an extremely rare case, which accounts for 1 in 500 thousand. Fewer than 200 such developmental anomalies are known in history.
- It is almost impossible to detect an anomaly during a prenatal examination, since the embryo inside the child was too small, - the doctors noted.
However, the reasons for such cases are still unknown. However, as one of the options - frequent abortions of the mother, which caused the abnormal development of two fetuses inside the third.
