http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060824-111050-4855r

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Man carried fetus of twin for 36 years

NAGPUR, India, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Doctors in India say an abdominal tumor in a 36-year-old man turned out to be the fetus of the man's twin brother.

Sanju Bhagat told ABC Primetime's "Medical Mysteries" he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big stomach. In 1999, the farmer from Nagpur, India, was rushed to the hospital because he couldn't breathe. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate.

Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Bombay said he found a fetus inside Bhagat's stomach. It turned out to be the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother.

Bhagat, they discovered, had a rare condition called fetus in fetu that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus forms an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, the TV program reported.

Mehta said there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature.

there was a girl in elementary school who had this condition, but was operated on shortly out of the womb, i believe. my dated her a few years back, i wasn't sure whether to tell him about it or not, since it might have been a deal breaker. some things you can overlook, but this is freaky-weird.

the_dude

I saw that on TV. Pretty friggin wierd. Therer were other cases on TV recently of this phenomenon, or similar. None of them, however, reported having 2 types of DNA w/in the blood......