“We have not had a prior experience with a parasitic twin but we work on many other children with multiple complex multi-organ congenital anomalies such as intestinal, urologic, cardiac, and ...

Conjoined twins are rare -- anywhere from 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 200,000 live births involve conjoined twins. But parasitic twins, where one of the twins never fully forms, are even less common.

“We have not had a prior experience with a parasitic twin but we work on many other children with multiple complex multi-organ congenital anomalies such as intestinal, urologic, cardiac, and ...

Foetus in fetu (FIF) is a rare congenital anomaly where a malformed parasitic twin develops inside the body of its normally developed twin, essentially forming a "foetus in within a fetu ...

If parasitic twins are conjoined twins that happen to be very asymmetrical, ... Unless there are other congenital abnormalities, or the heart is burdened by an unusually aggressive parasite, ...

Doctors decided the parasitic twin needed to be removed for the health of the 1-year-old. What they removed was a fetus, about 10 centimeters long, with the beginning formations of arms and hands.

Doctors decided the parasitic twin needed to be removed for the health of the 1-year-old. What they removed was a fetus, about 10 centimeters long, with the beginning formations of arms and hands.

Doctors at AIIMS Bhopal successfully removed a parasitic twin from a three-year-old girl's skull and neck in a complex surgery. According to news reports, the toddler is now recovering well.

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Doctors decided the parasitic twin needed to be removed for the health of the 1-year-old. What they removed was a fetus, about 10 centimeters long, with the beginning formations of arms and hands.

Here, we present an unusual case of monozygotic premature twin infants with bilateral choanal atresia and no other congenital anomalies. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such an ...