A teenage boy in Malaysia has undergone successful
abdominal surgery to remove a mass believed to be the foetus of his unborn twin
.
The condition, known medically as "foetus in
foetu", means that Mohd Zul Shahril Saidin, 15, had been carrying the
growing foetus since birth.
According to reports, the foetus had hair, legs, hands
and genitals.
Hasmah Ahmad, the boy’s mother, described the mass in
shocking detail, saying: "The foetus removed from my son’s stomach was
formed with organs like those of a baby – only the nose and mouth were not
complete."
She has also reportedly "accepted her son’s
fate", if the tumour truly was Mohd Zul Shahril’s twin.
Hasmah, 38, expressed her relief to local media after
surgeons in the Sultan Abdul Hamid Hospital , in Sungai Petani in the
north-western Malaysian state of Kedah, performed the successful operation.
Reports said Mohd Zul Shahril, the fifth of eight
children and a native of the town of Baling in Kedah, was only hospitalised
recently after he began complaining of pain in the last four months.
The boy’s ordeal has gained a massive following in
social media circles, with reports saying it was the first such case in
Malaysia.
Hasmah said she and her family had already performed
funeral rites on the foetus, which is now buried in a cemetery in Sungai
Petani.
Mohd Zul Shahril is reportedly still
recovering in hospital.
According to
reports, there is no clearly defined cause for "foetus in foetu" – an
abnormality similar to more well-documented conditions such as a
"vanishing twin" or "parasitic twin".
It is
estimated that the phenomenon occurs in 1 in every 500,000 live births.
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