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To: madison10

And I have an male acquaintance who at age 12 had an appendectomey and when it was over the surgeon looked around a bit and found two ovaries. He removed them and a vestigal uterus also.


20 posted on 10/17/2009 6:41:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: Chickensoup

Was this person able to have children as an adult? I wonder if perhaps the surgeon was premature in removing the ovaries... if that was their only route to having kids....


22 posted on 10/17/2009 6:49:31 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Chickensoup
"And I have an male acquaintance who at age 12 had an appendectomey and when it was over the surgeon looked around a bit and found two ovaries."

Fraternal twins. Only one developed, and the tissue of the undeveloped twin is joined to the survivor. Not terribly uncommon.

24 posted on 10/17/2009 6:53:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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