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Embryonic twin discovered in a one-year-old child’s brain in China

Pakyong, 10 March: Chinese medical professionals claimed to have extracted an “unborn twin” from a one-year-old baby’s brain. The article detailing the case was released in the Neurology journal.

Once the baby was brought in with an enlarged head and motor skill issues, the “unborn twin” showed up on scans. According to medical professionals, the unborn twin’s fetus had grown upper limbs, bones, and finger-like buds.

According to the study, the twin of the infant was identified using genomic sequencing of the fetus. Foetus-in-fetus, a medical term for when a mass of tissue resembling a fetus grows inside the body of the live twin, causes several symptoms.

Embryonic twin discovered in a one-year-old child’s brain in China

The globe hardly ever sees such situations, which affect just one in 10,000 babies.

Doctors in Ranchi, Jharkhand, extracted eight fetuses’ from a 21-day-old newborn baby’s stomach in November of last year.

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