Indian teen's stomach ache turns out to be bones, hair and fat from her own malformed twin, 事例／患者 報告（する）／憶測 明らかにする／漏らすs

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A 17-year-old woman in India couldn't shake her stomach ache, and noticed a 集まり growing in her abdomin.?

At last, she went to the doctor, where she discovered her problem wasn't digestive at all.?

She'd been carrying her own malformed twin in her belly for her entire life.?

Doctors believe the 身元不明の young woman is the first to carry a 部分的に／不公平に-developed twin in her own 団体／死体 into adulthood, によれば a 最近の British 医療の 定期刊行物 article.?

A CT ざっと目を通す shows bones (white) and other tissues growing in the 集まり in a 17-year-old's abdomen. She was carrying her malformed twin, a 事例／患者 報告（する）／憶測 says?

For five years, the mysterious 集まり grew at an 半端物 angle in the young woman's stomach.?

いつかs it 傷つける, and other times it made her feel like she was 十分な when she'd hardly eaten.?

When doctors 診察するd her ab domen, the felt a lumpy 集まり that was 公正に／かなり hard, but not 終始一貫して so.?

It appeared to be a tumor - but a large and strange one.??

ざっと目を通すs 明らかにする／漏らすd a （疑いを）晴らす 輪郭（を描く） for the 集まり, but inside it was a whole assortment of parts and tissues.?

Some areas looked like fat, others showed up like soft tissues of 組織／臓器s might.?

And then there were the hard, calcium-looking 部分s of the tumor, which show up stark white on a CT ざっと目を通す.

Upon closer 査察, the calcium 部分s of the ざっと目を通す were more than deposits, they looked like bones - 特に, vertebrae, ribs and 'long bones,' によれば the 事例／患者 報告（する）／憶測.?

The 集まり was surgically 除去するd two years ago.??

It did indeed 含む／封じ込める the bones the doctors thought they'd seen on the CT, which were 述べるd as '円熟した.'?

But it was also composed of hair, several teeth and 'structures 似ているing 四肢 buds.'?

The 集まり is known as a teratoma, a form of benign tumor that develops into several types of tissues, like those that develop in 行う／開催する／段階s of a baby's 開発, but are not a baby.?

Often they form in an ovary, testicle or tailbone.?

The 十代の少年少女 girl's teratoma was 特に unique for several 推論する／理由s.?

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For five years, the teratoma grew into a misshapen 集まり in the young woman's abdomen

Her tumor was likely a malformed twin that had started to develop と一緒に her in the womb - but was 吸収するd into her own 団体／死体 when it failed to develop any その上の.?

The 現象, called fetus in fetu, occurs in only one out of every 500,000 live births worldlier.?

What's more, it's usually seen in males, and rarely beyond childhood.?

In fact, the doctors from All India 学校／設ける of 医療の Sciences wrote that they believe she is the oldest woman to have been identified as still carrying the 痕跡s of a twin in this way.?

'I was much worried about my 復部の lump, after [the] 操作／手術 I am feeling very 井戸／弁護士席 and my abdomen is now flat and my parents are also very happy,' said the young woman in the 事例／患者 報告（する）／憶測, written two years after her harrowing ordeal.?

She has been doing 井戸／弁護士席 since the 外科, is healthy and, as she herself said, happy.????