Boy, 10, believed to be the only person in the world with a kidney in his LEG

A ten-year-old boy who has a kidney in his thigh is believed to be the only person in the world with his condition.

Hamish Robinson, who lives in Manchester, is missing the chromosome 7p22.1, leading to doctor's naming the unique genetic disorder after him.

Hamish only has hearing in one ear, suffers severe asthmatic attacks, has spinal problems, learning difficulties and requires a voice computer to speak due to the disorder.

His mother, Kay Robinson, 48, was concerned he wasn't reaching milestones, such as talking, after he was born premature.

Now, he is a medical phenomenon - but his life is under threat unless doctors, who have no previous knowledge on the condition, can remove the kidney. 

The youngster was born five-and-a-half-weeks premature in May 29, 2008, seemingly healthy albeit extremely tiny - weighing just two pounds. 

Following complications with feeding, he was then discharged from hospital.

But a paediactrician kept an eye on him as he showed complications from the start, marking the beginning of a long journey. 

Worried about his development, Ms Robinson, a former lecturer, took him to see a geneticist when he was 17-months-old.

 She said: 'He wasn't hitting some milestones but wasn't hitting others.

'He was certainly not speaking at all, then one day when he was 17-months-old he said mamma and then I waited another six years to hear anything else.

'It was only later that I suspected things weren't right.

'He wasn't speaking, he wasn't doing the sort of things he should have been doing.' 

Hamish, who had his first operation - for a hernia - at the age of four months old, has been under eight different consultants, including and endocrinologist, a gastroenterologist and an immunologist.