Friday, November 24, 2006

TheStar.com - Chilean boy born with fetus in his stomach: "SANTIAGO, Chile — A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of 'fetus in fetu' in which one twin becomes trapped inside another during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it.

Doctors carried out a scan on the boy's mother shortly before she gave birth on Nov. 15 in the southern city of Temuco and noticed the 4-inch-long fetus inside the boy's abdomen.

It had limbs and a partially developed spinal cord but no head and stood no chance of survival, doctors said."