A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. <\/p>\n
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.<\/p>\n
“They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn’t suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo,” hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.<\/p>\n
The girl has made a full recovery, he said.<\/p>\n
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital’s pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.<\/p>\n
Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.<\/p>\n
The girl’s family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n
By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
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