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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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Autores principales: Ahmed, Kotti, Mahdi, Ben Dhaou, Hayet, Zitouni, Hamdi, Louati, Mohamed, Jallouli, Riadh, Mhiri
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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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
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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.
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Ahmed, Kotti
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Hamdi, Louati
Mohamed, Jallouli
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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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