The extremely rare condition is said to happen in just one in 500,000 live births
A newborn was diagnosed with an exceptionally rare condition and required surgery when he was just three days old.
A 32-year-old pregnant woman was identified as having a rare congenital anomaly affecting her unborn child.
During a routine 35-week scan, it was discovered that she had fetus-in-fetu, a condition so uncommon it occurs in only about one in 500,000 live births.
A pregnant woman in India was detected with fetus-in-fetu (Getty Stock Image)
According to the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (ISUOG), fetus-in-fetu is described as “an extremely rare anomaly of monochorionic, diamniotic twins in which a malformed fetus develops within the body of its healthy sibling.”
Since the beginning of medical record-keeping, only around 200 cases of this have been documented worldwide, NDTV reports.
