A 35-year-old tractor operator, Igor Namyatov, has undergone
surgery to be relieved of what had initially been diagnosed as a
tumor, but turned out to be the embryo of his unborn twin brother,
the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday. Doctors said the
embryo belonged to Namyatovs unborn brother who had spent 35 years
in the body of the patient. Namyatovs fellow villagers doubted the
explanation given by the doctors. Some even surmised the object
removed from Namyatovs body was an extraterrestrial organism. It
is a pity they have removed it. They should have waited to see what
would become of it later on. That would have been a great
scientific find, one of the villagers said. The little brother
first made himself known when Igor was 15. At that time the boy
complained about pains in his back, but doctors played down his
complaints saying it was only a harmless fatty tumor. Twenty years
later the pains came back.
The doctors decided to operate at once. They were genuinely
surprised to see that the tumor was in fact an embryo with little
legs and hands. A forensic expert summoned to the village to
investigate refused to probe the incident saying it was clear
anyway that the object was an underdeveloped embryo. Igor Namyatov
refused to leave the embryo at the hospital for further
research.
from MoscowNews
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