Abdominal fetus-in-fetu in a two-year-old boy
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Yi Gan1 • Jun-Hui Wu1 • Jun Zhou2 • Ping-An Hu3 • Tie-Qiang Lai4 • Yun Tian2 • Chang-Qing Gao2 Department of Surgery, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Research Center for Medical Sciences, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Department of Internal Medicine, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Department of Radiology, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Correspondence to: Chang-Qing Gao. Email: [email protected]
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