Girl's twin is found inside her stomach

[sandance2]

A 9-year-old girl who went to the hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors 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. 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 occurs in one of 500,000 live births. The girl has made a full recovery

[CHEF GIRL]

I'm glad the little girl is doing great, but wouldn't you have found that out on her annuel check-ups going to the Doctor's office? But I guess when you have a check up they wouldn't be able to tell she had a twin growing inside her, because it's just a basic check up.

[luv_2_laugh]

I read a story somewhat like this one a few years ago. But in that incident it was a 30 something year old man who was an outcast in his village because his stomach was the size of a pregnant woman at six months and they thought he was possessed by something evil. Anyway, when he was finally able to go seek the advice of a doctor he did and they learned that he had been carrying around his embryonic twin for all those years how bizarre is that?