Pediatric Surgeon, Hospital San Jeronimo de Monteria, Colombia
Case Report
Fetus in Fetu
Author(s): Luis A. Mejia-Vargas*, Juan Esteban Tafur Delgado, Sayne Sailet Gonzalez Alvarez, Villaveces Buelvas, Valentina Lobo Perez, Lucia Vellojin Olivares, Dayana Judith de la rosa Gonzalez, Carlos Mauricio Vergara lobo and Julio Cesar Anichiarico Cecere
The fetus in fetus (FIF) is a rare congenital pathology with less than 200 cases reported in the literature worldwide, in which a pregnancy with monozygotic twins one of them develops normally, while the other atrophies and it is inside the developed twin. The most frequent location is retroperitoneal; however, multiple cases have been described in the sacrum, mediastinum, skull and neck. We present a case of a 17-dayold female patient diagnosed with a congenital abdominal mass. After the extraction, an anatomopathological analysis was performed. There were multiple limbs, vertebral column, anencephalic cranial cavity, and the diagnosis of FIF was concluded. .. View More»
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