9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach

**Jaded** · May 15th, 2008, 09:29 AM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo 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 occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-15-07-58-31

**carol13** · May 15th, 2008, 10:14 AM

nevermind

**skeptical** · May 15th, 2008, 10:55 AM

Talk about freaky. Can you imagine growing up being told "Well, you were going to have a twin but you kinda absorbed your sibling and they had to remove what was left of it from your stomach when you were 9." Poor child will never live it down!

**Nell** · May 15th, 2008, 11:09 AM

I have an 8 year old who will be 9 in July And I think I would have been tempted to lie to her. And I do not lie anymore, but this is so gross that I would be freaked out as an adult!

**~Absynthe~** · May 15th, 2008, 12:50 PM

This reminds me of Stephen Kings..The Dark Half.

**jlt080405** · May 15th, 2008, 05:52 PM

Thanks for the article Jaded That shit has always been interesting to me

**SqueakyClean** · May 15th, 2008, 06:11 PM

Poor kid. Hope she wasn't too traumatized. :(

**Lizard** · May 15th, 2008, 06:13 PM

At least this story wasn't about 9-year-old who killed and ate twin...

**Death Angel** · May 15th, 2008, 07:15 PM

could have been like this

**Nell** · May 15th, 2008, 07:17 PM

Death Angel, where have you been!! You have to do a picture for us in the Linda Weeks thread. Pretty please?

**Death Angel** · May 15th, 2008, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by Nell

Death Angel, where have you been!! You have to do a picture for us in the Linda Weeks thread. Pretty please?

oh you can count on it

**KillBill20** · May 15th, 2008, 11:47 PM

There are some things I'd rather not read about... this is one of them.

Seriously though, if this was my kid I'd lie to her. There is no reason why she should ever need to know that she's been walking around for nine years with her undergrown, underdeveloped mutated sister inside her.

~Kyle