Kang Mengru Has Parasitic Twin In Stomach – A 1-year-old girl from China named Kang Mengru, pictured below, has a parasitic twin in her stomach and needs an operation to remove it, doctors say.
Kang Mengru’s abnormally swollen belly left doctors baffled and searching for a cause.
A CT scan to discover the cause of the growth revealed a fetus inside her and they believe it is a rare case of a parasitic twin, that is a twin absorbed wholly or partially by its sibling while in the womb.
While the condition is very rare, Dr. Manny Alvarez said it is possible that’s what this child is “carrying.”
“There are multiple varieties of parasitic twins,” said Alvarez. “In some cases you could have some sort of merging body parts… like an extra leg or sometimes you have an abnormal formation of the head when you have two brains.”
In this instance, Alvarez said from looking at a picture of the girl, you can clearly see that it’s a large abdominal mass that could potentially be an embryonic remnant of a lost twin.
“This could be a type of parasitic twin called fetus-in-fetu,” he said. “What you find is that you have an encapsulated tumor-like formation inside the body, which contains fetal parts.”
Little Kang Mengru is now waiting for an operation to have the parsitic twin fetus removed.
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October 1st, 2009 at 5:34 am
Eeew! That is sooo creepy!!!!
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 am
all good things must come to an end…
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
now thats just plain weird!
October 4th, 2009 at 3:41 am
cool blog
October 4th, 2009 at 8:28 am
hope she’s OK! She looks pregnant!