A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus inside his stomach, in a rare case, where one twin becomes trapped inside another during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it. This condition is extremely rare and occurs in 1 in 500,000 live births.
The doctors carried out a scan on the mother shortly before she gave birth and noticed the 4-inch-long fetus inside the boy’s stomach. It had limbs and a partially developed spinal cord, but no head. The doctors said that it stood no chance of survival.
Just after the birth, the doctors operated on the boy and removed the fetus from his stomach. The boy is recovering at Temuco’s Hernan Henriquez hospital presently.
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