A boy has been born in Chile with a foetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of “foetus in fetu”in which one twin becomes trapped inside the other during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it.Doctors carried out a scan on the boy’s mother shortly before she gave birth in the southern city of Temuco and noticed the 4inch long foetus inside the boy’s abdomen .It had limbs and partially developed spinal cord but no head and stood no chance of survival,doctors said .After the birth ,doctors operated and removed the foetus from the boy’s stomach .The boy still recovering.It occurs in only one in every 500000 live births.Records of such cases recorded worldwide are fewer than 90.
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