Sanju Bhagat’s stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months
pregnant and could barely breathe. Living in the city of Nagpur, India,
Bhagat said he’d felt self-conscious his whole life about his big
belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something
much larger than cosmetic worry.
Sanju Bhagat looked 9 months pregnant
Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an
operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had
never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat’s stomach, gallons of
fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. “First,
one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of
genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair.”
Fetus in Fetu – alexdawsonart
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually,
Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat’s twin brother from his
stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world’s most
bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare
abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin.
The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by
forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin’s blood
supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which
point doctors usually intervene.
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