Radiologic Technology, July 1st, 2000
Problem
Childbirth should be a joyous occasion. And usually it is. Every mother hopes to deliver a normal and healthy baby. Imagine, then, this mother's grief when told her newborn had a large mass in the abdomen.
A portable abdomen x-ray examination revealed an even stranger phenomenon. It was not a mass. It was an undeveloped fetus.
Solution
The occurrence of a fetus within a fetus, called "fetus-in-fetu," is extremely rare. Fewer that 100 cases have been documented. Fetus-in-fetu is a congenital abnormality in which one fetus is enclosed within the body of another. The fetus actually ...
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