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'Liver pregnancy' woman saved after baby removed
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Updated: 2004-08-05 10:03


A pregnant woman was saved when doctors removed a baby from her liver in Shanghai August 4, 2004. The baby was pronounced dead when doctors at the Shanghai Pudong Gongli Hospital took it out of the mother's liver. It is reported that such pregnancies are extremely rare. So far only 14 such cases have been reported around the world. [newsphoto]

The woman is now in hospital recovering from the operation. [newsphoto]

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