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Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature
Heteropagus twins are an extremely rare event with an incidence of 1–2 million live births that represents, sometimes, a real challenge for paediatric surgeons. The majority of cases have complete or partial duplication of the pelvis and/or lower extremities. Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28051055 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0189-6725.194670 |
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author | Ahmed, Kotti Mahdi, Ben Dhaou Hayet, Zitouni Hamdi, Louati Mohamed, Jallouli Riadh, Mhiri |
author_facet | Ahmed, Kotti Mahdi, Ben Dhaou Hayet, Zitouni Hamdi, Louati Mohamed, Jallouli Riadh, Mhiri |
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description | Heteropagus twins are an extremely rare event with an incidence of 1–2 million live births that represents, sometimes, a real challenge for paediatric surgeons. The majority of cases have complete or partial duplication of the pelvis and/or lower extremities. Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins is a rare condition in which a grossly defective foetus (the parasite) is attached to the thorax of the main foetus (the autosite). We describe a case of a parasitic heteropagus attached at the chest wall with a rare presentation of giant exomphalos on the autosite. In this situation, the separation procedure was simple after a well-done anatomic study using X-ray, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance and echocardiogram are performed. |
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spelling | pubmed-51542312016-12-20 Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature Ahmed, Kotti Mahdi, Ben Dhaou Hayet, Zitouni Hamdi, Louati Mohamed, Jallouli Riadh, Mhiri Afr J Paediatr Surg Case Report Heteropagus twins are an extremely rare event with an incidence of 1–2 million live births that represents, sometimes, a real challenge for paediatric surgeons. The majority of cases have complete or partial duplication of the pelvis and/or lower extremities. Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins is a rare condition in which a grossly defective foetus (the parasite) is attached to the thorax of the main foetus (the autosite). We describe a case of a parasitic heteropagus attached at the chest wall with a rare presentation of giant exomphalos on the autosite. In this situation, the separation procedure was simple after a well-done anatomic study using X-ray, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance and echocardiogram are performed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5154231/ /pubmed/28051055 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0189-6725.194670 Text en Copyright: © 2016 African Journal of Paediatric Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ahmed, Kotti Mahdi, Ben Dhaou Hayet, Zitouni Hamdi, Louati Mohamed, Jallouli Riadh, Mhiri Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title | Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title_full | Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title_fullStr | Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title_short | Thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: Report of a case and complete review of the literature |
title_sort | thoracic heteropagus conjoined twins associated to an omphalocele: report of a case and complete review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28051055 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0189-6725.194670 |
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