"Alien" Embryo Removed From 35-Year-Old Man's Back

[WillParkinson]

A 35-year-old tractor operator, Igor Namyatov, has undergone surgery to be relieved of what had initially been diagnosed as a tumor, but turned out to be the embryo of his unborn twin brother, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday.

Doctors said the embryo belonged to Namyatov’s unborn brother who had spent 35 years in the body of the patient. (There's a picture on the site)

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/16/brother.shtml

[WeRQ4U]

1. Whoa.

Now that's.....interesting.

"Well doc, is it malignant?"

"Nope, it's your brother."



:wtf:

[hopein08]

2. I just saw something like this on TV!!!

It was on TLC and I think the show was called "Born In Danger" or something medically scary like that. Anyway, this one couple had a sonogram and it showed that their son had a mass of some type in his abdomen. It was impossible to tell what it was from the sonogram and the doctors chalked it up to a pre-natal tumor. The pregnancy went to term and when the baby was born, they did exploratory surgery to see what it was. It was the fetus of another baby, a twin. It's called fetus in fetu or something like that. Anyway, the best they could figure, the abdominal wall of the baby had form around his brother. Unfortunately, the fetus had continued to grow and the baby ended up jaundiced and not eating because most of his intestines had died. They had to do an intestinal transplant when the baby was about eight months old. At the time the show was made, the little boy was an adorably health four years old.

[underpants]

3. WOW

:wow:

[weeble_wobble]

4. Reminds me of the women I saw

on discovery health the other night who are "chimeras", they have 2 sets of DNA in their bodies due to absorbing the fertilized egg of a twin shortly after conception (if it is later, they are conjoined twins). The women learned this after the children they gave birth to tested as not being theirs, genetically, they had to run DNA tests on various tissues to find the link.

These women are their own twins!

[GaYellowDawg]

5. Hmmm...

So he was his brother's keeper.:hide:

[radwriter0555]

6. Like the Aunt in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding!"

ew ew ew ew ew ew!