Successful management of a parasitic ischiopagus conjoined twins in a low‐income setting

Ischiopagus parasites are fetal defects attached to a relatively normal twin by pelvis. This is the first reported case of parasitic ischiopagus twins without prenatal diagnosis successfully managed in Mozambique. A multidisciplinary team was involved in the supernumerary limbs excision. After 7 mon...

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Autores principales: Muhelo, Arlindo Rosario, Montemezzo, Genni, Da Dalt, Liviana, Wingi, Olivier Manzungu, Trevisanuto, Daniele, Gamba, Piergiorgio, Pizzol, Damiano, Cavaliere, Elena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1374
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author Muhelo, Arlindo Rosario
Montemezzo, Genni
Da Dalt, Liviana
Wingi, Olivier Manzungu
Trevisanuto, Daniele
Gamba, Piergiorgio
Pizzol, Damiano
Cavaliere, Elena
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description Ischiopagus parasites are fetal defects attached to a relatively normal twin by pelvis. This is the first reported case of parasitic ischiopagus twins without prenatal diagnosis successfully managed in Mozambique. A multidisciplinary team was involved in the supernumerary limbs excision. After 7 months, the infant has a normal development.
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spelling pubmed-57996492018-02-14 Successful management of a parasitic ischiopagus conjoined twins in a low‐income setting Muhelo, Arlindo Rosario Montemezzo, Genni Da Dalt, Liviana Wingi, Olivier Manzungu Trevisanuto, Daniele Gamba, Piergiorgio Pizzol, Damiano Cavaliere, Elena Clin Case Rep Case Reports Ischiopagus parasites are fetal defects attached to a relatively normal twin by pelvis. This is the first reported case of parasitic ischiopagus twins without prenatal diagnosis successfully managed in Mozambique. A multidisciplinary team was involved in the supernumerary limbs excision. After 7 months, the infant has a normal development. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5799649/ /pubmed/29445482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1374 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Trevisanuto, Daniele
Gamba, Piergiorgio
Pizzol, Damiano
Cavaliere, Elena
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