It’s rare congenital disorders week

November 25, 2006

This time, fetus in fetu. A boy born with a fetus in his stomach:

Doctors carried out a scan on the boy’s mother shortly before she gave birth on November 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.