|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Six Kilo Fetus Removed From Male Farmer BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese farmer lived for 28 years with the fetus of his identical twin brother inside him, and it was only discovered after he hurt his stomach at work, state media reported Monday. Surgeons removed a six-kilogram (13.2 pound) cyst containing an ossified male fetus from the farmer identified only as He from the northern province of Shaanxi, Xinhua news agency reported. "The fetus' teeth, hair, skin and pubes are similar to that of an adult but his anus and bellybutton are those of a fetus. His genitalia are the size of a three-year-old kid," said surgeon Liu Jianmin, who was in charge of the operation at Hanzhong medical school. Liu said the fetus was the man's identical twin, and he described the discovery as an "unprecedented medical phenomenon." Experts at Xi'an University of Medical Science said the fetus grew
inside the man at first, but once it died, the growth continued to get
bigger because it was fed by nutrition from the spleen artery. He's family
said he was born with a particularly large stomach. The growth was
discovered by ultrasound during tests after He went to a hospital after
hurting his stomach working in the
fields.
Newswires |
