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A case of "parasitic twin" or "fetus in fetu" was recorded in Barranquilla, Colombia, where they had to undergo a caesarean-like surgical procedure to a newborn who had her twin in her womb. The abnormality occurs in a pregnancy over a million, but it was the first time that she was identified before childbirth.

According to the Colombian Los Informantes program, during her seventh month of pregnancy, Mónica Vega underwent a routine ultrasound scan in which she detected that the fetus developing in her womb had another fetus, smaller but with an amniotic cord.

The abnormality called "fetus fetus" occurs when the cells do not separate at the indicated time. The twins divide their cells during the first week of gestation and begin to form. If this process occurs during the second week, the Siamese occurs and if it is after day 17, the fetus is reached in the fœtu.

In Barranquila's case, 24 hours after they were born, they had to treat the baby named Itzamara by a cesarean-like surgical procedure to extract the mbad that had formed inside. The fetus surgeon Miguel Parra, who attended the case, told Radio Caracol that the fetus "lacks heart and brain but that it has its four limbs and bones".

Itzamara has been operated on successfully and is in good health.