The medical team of the Saudi Conjoined Twins Programme began a complex surgical procedure on Wednesday morning to separate an Egyptian parasitic twin from seven-month-old Mohammed Abdulrahman Juma.

In a complex and exceptionally rare surgical procedure, doctors at AIIMS Bhopal successfully removed a parasitic twin that was attached to the skull and spine of a three-year-old girl. According ...

A parasitic twin is an anomaly that occurs when two fetuses begin to develop in the womb, but one stops growing and remains dependent on the other for survival. In a complex and extremely rare ...

In a rare and delicate surgery, doctors at AIIMS Bhopal successfully removed a parasitic twin attached to a young girl's skull. The child, a native of Ashoknagar, had been living with a fleshy ...

The case involved a parasitic twin, a condition in which an incompletely developed twin fetus was attached to the skull and neck of a living child. A parasitic twin is a rare anomaly that occurs ...

A parasitic twin is an extremely rare type of conjoined twin. While research is limited, experts suggest that this condition doesn’t cause severe complications. But it requires surgery — often ...

The 17-year-old, who is from Uttar Pradesh, India, was born with his 'parasitic' twin attached to his abdomen and had a fully developed extra set of legs, as well as a pelvis. A parasitic twin is ...

The condition, known as an incomplete parasitic twin happens when an underdeveloped twin attaches to the host twin and survives by feeding off their body. In a ground-breaking medical achievement ...

The rare condition, known as an incomplete parasitic twin, occurs when an underdeveloped twin fails to fully form and remains attached to the host twin, relying on the host’s body for survival.

Doctors in India have successfully removed a 16kg ‘parasitic twin’ from a teenage boy following an intensive surgical procedure. Parasitic twins are an extremely rare medical phenomenon which ...

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A team of around 20 doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) successfully removed a parasitic twin, weighing about 15-16 kilos, from the abdomen of a 17-year-old boy in what ...