A baby girl was born in Israel with an embryo inside her stomach, in an extreme medical rarity that astounded doctors.
The girl was born earlier this month at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, the hospital said Tuesday.
Cases of fetus-in-fetu occur only about once in every 500,000 births.
Checks and ultrasounds in the late stages of the pregnancy had already identified that the girl’s stomach was enlarged, and following her natural birth doctors carefully examined her and confirmed that there was something inside the newborn.
She was immediately given a battery of further examinations including ultrasounds and an X-ray.
A team of the medical center’s top experts carried out the operation, eventually removing two similar sacs from the girl’s stomach.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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