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itvending 10:52:20 AM May 16 2008
BEING A BEER DRINKER I HAVE A "MILWAKEE TUMOR" THE SIZE OF BASKETBALL.
aeaingerly 10:40:34 AM May 16 2008
Wow, that's gotta be traumatic for a 9 year old girl to find out.
papalheartjpii 03:15:55 PM May 15 2008
My step son had a brain teratoma, his identical twin was absorbed the same way, it is rare but does occur.
Life begins at conception, this girl was conceived as a twin, the sibling's development in utero was halted, probably due to not having a brain. The living child continued to develop and absorbed the embryonic sac of her twin. Since blood vessels continued to provide nutrients necessary for cell life, the absorbed twin's cells continued to grow. Thereby enlarging the Teratoma (: a tumor derived from more than one embryonic layer and made up of a heterogeneous mixture of tissues (as epithelium, bone, cartilage, or muscle).
Since the twin died before absorbtion, the soul would have returned to God.
The teratoma was most likely in the girls abdmen, as explained by a previous poster, the term stomach is often interchanged.
I wish this child much health and recovery.
maribob12 02:54:46 PM May 15 2008
Ever hear of a pilonidal cyst containing fragments from a twin that was didn't develop?
neddylou63 02:44:43 PM May 15 2008
It was probably located in the abdomen, not actually inside the stomach. So it doesn't come in contact with "digestive acids". Those two terms are often used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable. The abdomen is the entire area and the stomach is only the stomach.
sagittarius19 02:25:34 PM May 15 2008
come on people wake up" be kind, not stupid" where is your kindness? you are boobs" if you do not understand the human body"
flutterbic 02:10:16 PM May 15 2008
FYI: It is called "fetus in fetu", which obviously the savy reporters forgot to leave out.
