Hubballi/DHNS: A rare surgery was successfully performed on a 15-day-old baby boy at KMC-RI in Hubballi on Tuesday.
KMC–RI Medical Superintendent Ishwar Hasabi said that Dr Rajshankar and team performed laparotomy surgery on the baby and the baby’s health is stable.
He informed that on 23 September, a 28-year woman from Kundagol taluk of Dharwad district had given birth to a baby boy. However, fetal organs were found inside the stomach of the newborn.
He said that it was a rare case of fetus-in-fetu found for the first time at KMC-RI. Fetus-in-fetu is a condition, where a malformed parasitic twin forms inside another, with fewer than 200 cases reported globally and only a few in India.
He stated that the trapped fetus does not grow independently but forms as a mass of disorganised tissue, often containing a vertebral column and limbs.