What the... whoa. Freakiness. Whooh.

[pr0gger]

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2987963.stm

A seven-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with stomach pains was actually "pregnant" with his twin brother.
Doctors at Chimkent Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from a cyst.

But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother.

The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.

'No longer alive'

Doctors at the hospital told the BBC the tumour was the remains of his twin brother's foetus.

They said that while it was no longer a living substance it was feeding off the boy's blood supply.

If left unchecked it could one day have threatened Mourat's own life.


The tumour has now been successfully removed.

It is believed that the foetus grew inside Mourat while he was developing in the womb.

Doctors believe the two foetuses should have developed into conjoined twins.

"At first we saw that the boy's organs were squeezed by a large hard swelling covered with black hair," one surgeon told a British newspaper.

"As we washed him, we could see that inside him he had his own twin brother. Mourat had been a Siamese twin but nobody knew it.

"Something had gone wrong during his mother's pregnancy and the baby grew inside his brother."

Valentina Vostrikova, chief surgeon at Chimkent Children's Hospital, told the newspaper: "It was remarkable. For seven years it lived like a parasite inside the boy's body."

Doctors at the hospital told the BBC they were unable to explain the phenomenon.

They suggested a number of factors could have played a role, including malnutrition in the mother.

:o

[Ninkazu]

Ever seen Junior? lol.

[Agamemnus]

"foetus?" Makes me doubt.

[pr0gger]

That's the British spelling, I guess (Remember, this is the BBC) Maybe we can ask Wildcard when he gets back...

[Ninkazu]

Who needs disgusting stories of pregnant little boys when you have....

INSTRUCTIONS ON KEWL NINJA MASKS! MWAAA



:lol:

[relsoft]

Rare but not impossible. As you can see, the Ovum was fertilzed inside the mom's Fallopian tube then implants itself in the uterus. They were prolly twins at fertilization time but freaks of nature do happen. Something like that happened in India a while ago. If I were him, I'd take it out.

BTW, the Fetus is alive because it takes the nutrition from his normal twin. And it does not eat by the mouth. :*) It *eats* via the umbilicus.

So it ain't really news to me.

[toonski84]

i've heard if from other sources. but daaaaaaaaamn!

[oracle]

*digs through his archives for Guiness Book of Records...*

Found it.

Longest Undiscovered Twin

In July 1997 a foetus was discovered in the abdomen of 16-year-old Hisham Ragab of Eqypt, who had been complaining of stomach pains. A swollen sac found pressing against his kidneys turned out to be Hisham's 18-cm-long (7-in), 2 kg (4 lb 6 oz) identical twin. The foetus, which had been growing inside him, had lived to the age of 32 or 33 weeks.

:o

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

Rel, no news for you, but it's still sick.

Talking about the other "topic", considering the guy, his facial expression, the background and the fact that he's using a t-shirt to make a ninja mask... disturbing... to say something nice about him.


He looks by far more sane and right-minded.