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 ====Fetus in fetu====
 *Grouped with ''mature teratoma'', as it is considered a well-developed mature teratoma.<ref name=pmid3045784>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Heifetz | first1 = SA. | last2 = Alrabeeah | first2 = A. | last3 = Brown | first3 = BS. | last4 = Lau | first4 = H. | title = Fetus in fetu: a fetiform teratoma. | journal = Pediatr Pathol | volume = 8 | issue = 2 | pages = 215-26 | month =  | year = 1988 | doi =  | PMID = 3045784 }}</ref><ref name=pmid17183856>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Basu | first1 = A. | last2 = Jagdish | first2 = S. | last3 = Iyengar | first3 = KR. | last4 = Basu | first4 = D. | title = Fetus in fetu or differentiated teratomas? | journal = Indian J Pathol Microbiol | volume = 49 | issue = 4 | pages = 563-5 | month = Oct | year = 2006 | doi =  | PMID = 17183856 }}</ref>
-**Others have suggested they are distinct from teratomas, and should be thought of as a parasitic twin.
+**It has been suggested they are distinct from teratomas.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Basu | first1 = A. | last2 = Jagdish | first2 = S. | last3 = Iyengar | first3 = KR. | last4 = Basu | first4 = D. | title = Fetus in fetu or differentiated teratomas? | journal = Indian J Pathol Microbiol | volume = 49 | issue = 4 | pages = 563-5 | month = Oct | year = 2006 | doi =  | PMID = 17183856 }}</ref>
+***They could be thought of as a parasitic twin.
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