Indian doctors have successfully removed the extra limbs of a two-year old girl. Lakshmi Tatma was joined at the pelvis with a parasitic twin. The team of surgeons in Bangalore operated on Lakshmi for 27 hours removing 4 limbs, the arms, legs, and pelvis of the undeveloped twin. “Lakshmi is stable and sound,” said Dr. Sharan Patil, the M.D. who volunteered to perform the surgery. He was “optimistic about the child’s survival”.
The girl has been hailed by some in her village in the northern state of Bihar as the reincarnation of a multi-limbed Hindu goddess.
Conjoined twins occur in about one in every 200,000 births.
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