Siamese twins: Thoracopagus – A rare congenital anomaly
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A woman, aged 40, had already had four children and this was the fifth pregnancy. She was well nourished. Tier pulse was 120, respiration 30, blood pressure 170/90, and temperature 98.8?F. She was very edematous?her legs, abdomen, and face were extremely swollen. Labour pains had started 18 hours previously. pains were strong and membranes had not yet ruptured. I advised her to come at once to ...
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A case of vaginally delivered stillborn female thoracopagus conjoined twins is presented. Each twlin had a cleft lip and cleft palate. They shared a common pericardial sac and a common abdominal cavity. The liver was conjoined, and the small bowel was common to both twins. One twin was asplenic. Although the twins were monozygotic, their viscera were neither identical nor mirror-image to each o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0971-9903
DOI: 10.4103/jmgims.jmgims_60_17