Unborn twin with hair, legs and genitals removed from teenager stomach after 15 years

A teenage boy in Malaysia has undergone successful surgery to remove a mass believed to be his unborn twin.

Mohd Zul Shahril Saidin, 15, had been carrying the foetus since birth – a condition known medically as ‘foetus in foetu’.

The incredibly rare condition is where the malformed foetus is found in the body of its twin.

According to local media reports, the foetus had hair, legs, hands and genitals.

The boy’s mother, Hasmah Ahmad, expressed her relief to local media after surgeons in the north-western Malaysian state of Kedah performed the successful operation.

Mrs Ahmad, 38, described the mass in shocking detail, saying: ‘The foetus removed from my son’s stomach was formed with organs like those of a baby – only the nose and mouth were not complete.’

She has also reportedly ‘accepted her son’s fate’, if the tumour truly was his twin.

The teenager was only hospitalised recently after he began complaining of pain over the last four months.

Mrs Ahmad said she and her family had already performed funeral rites on the foetus, which is now buried in a cemetery.