ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece 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," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.

The girl has made a full recovery, he said.

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 occur in one of 500,000 live births.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/15...n.ap/index.html
I fail for forgetting the source.

Sweet.

What happened to the embryo I wonder.

Stem cell research?

The girl could have made like $50 for it.

What the hell happened to her?

I hate things like this.
Make me feel all... ugggh~

It happened a few years ago too

to this boy (more like a teen)

and his twin was actually really developed (enough that they actually showed it on the news)
His hair was growing, nails were growing just like normal
but he had no brain either i believe
but it was dead though except for some minor growths


The boy said he always felt like he had a twin somewhere

So technically she gave birth, to a dead boy.

Yuck. How does something like that happen?

Source??

Well.

I'm grossed out.

PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

/winner

gross

This story comes out every year, in a slightly different version.

Not that I'm saying it's not true... it's just no longer news to me when it happens.

This is why we don't have superheros these days. We need to let these kind of people develop their powers.

Her twin couldn't stomach it I guess

Probably tossed in the gargabe

what the hell....

LOL, your title is a little off.

Twins weren't found INSIDE HER STOMACH. She was suffering from stomach pains.

Dwight: "When my mother was pregnant with me they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later they discovered that I had reabsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby."

That's .. a little too insane.

We seem to have threads of news similar to this every year or so...

that is just wierd

THats so messede

thats pretty harsh. i hate bio

That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. haha good ol' dwight

They should have killed the girl to save the embryo.

What a nice, heartwarming story to start the day


Now, time to eat breakfast.

Trying to get quoted?

That would be a pretty hard thing for a nine year old to go through.

no kidding. i initially thought this is about a 9yrs old girl who is pregnant with a twins

cause you know babies come from the stomache.

wow, thats crazy

what the hell ??

she should stop eating fetuses...