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Thought I'd share a positive news story. This 10-month-old baby was born with four legs and two spines. The legs were protruding from her neck. She underwent a successful surgery in Chicago earlier this month and doctors expect she will be able to lead a normal life.
It's really amazing how far medicine has come and I hope we are only at the beginning.
aw, poor baby. that must have been awful having the legs coming out of her back like that. so glad that they were able to remove them and she is doing fine. she's cute!
This case was a "parasitic" twin. In "conjoined" both twins are alive. This one was not. Google it for some very strange cases....one guy had a parasitic twin in his belly so for all his life he looked like he was pregnant.
So glad this case turned out well! It truly IS amazing what medicine can do now...
This case was a "parasitic" twin. In "conjoined" both twins are alive. This one was not.
Oh, it was very much alive - just not a complete body. A parasitic twin is a subset of the larger set of conjoined twins; in both cases, the problem results from an either an incomplete division of a developing embryo, or two separate early embryos fusing together.
If you really want to gross yourself out, Google "fetus in fetu" and "teratoma." When developmental biology goes wrong, sometimes it goes horror-movie wrong!
I'm glad the kid in this case was able to be successfully separated from the redundant set of legs and spine. Sometimes the connections between the different body parts makes it impossible to remove them.
And here's a famous set of conjoined twins that couldn't be separated because they don't have two separate and complete bodies (although they are clearly two separate persons):
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