Newborn girl might have been carrying her parasitic twins

It sounds like something out of Weekly World News, but it's actually straight out of a report in the Hong Kong Medical Journal: A baby girl was found to be carrying two masses which could be partially developed fetuses inside her abdomen. The extremely rare phenomenon is called fetus in fetu (literally "fetus inside fetus"), and doctors are still puzzled by it.

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