Chinese doctors performed an operation this week during which successfully removed extra limbs in a boy born with with four arms and four legs. Now the newborn is in stable condition in one of the hospitals in the south china province Guangdong and feels satisfactory.
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A boy who is currently 14 days old was born with joining him headless twin.
According to the chief surgeon at the children’s medical center Guangzhou, babies were supposed to be twins, but one turned out to be not sufficiently developed and began to deform. Siamese twins weighed a little more than three kilograms before the operation, although it was removed parasitic fetus weighing 600 grams.
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According to Mail Online, the child was diagnosed with surgery before pneumonia and congenital heart disease, which is not uncommon for children born in China.
His father, whose name is Chen, said he had been with his newborn son in many hospitals located near at home, but in none of them could explain the reasons for the deformation. Chen says he blames himself for what happened. The man believes that better wife care during pregnancy could prevent deformation of the second fetus.
“I was only worried about my work. I wanted to earn money instead of taking his wife to the hospital for medical examination, “said the man.
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Last August, media reported an eight-month Indian a child who has had surgery to remove a second head. As stated doctors, the second head was the “parasitic twin” who weighed almost a kilogram. A child known as Tofajal suffered from a rare a disease called encephalomeningocele that affects one of 40-45 thousand children.
A similar incident occurred with a child in Pakistan for two years. back. According to a doctor at the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, abnormal birth was the result of genetic a disease that affects only one infant per million. Monozygotic or identical twins are formed from one zygote. (one egg fertilized by one sperm), divided at the crushing stage into two (or more) parts. Xyphopagus or Siamese twins form when the crushing stage not completely happening.
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