Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()

A parasitic or heteropagus twin is a grossly defective fetus (or fetus part) attached externally, with or without internal connections and is dependent on the cardiovascular system of the other twin (autosite) for survival. The estimated incidence is approximately 1 per 1 million live births. To dat...

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Autores principales: Hailu, Samuel Sisay, Solomon, Daniel Zewdneh, Gebremedhin, Yocabel Gorfu, Nour, Amal Saleh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35965936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.07.079
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author Hailu, Samuel Sisay
Solomon, Daniel Zewdneh
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Nour, Amal Saleh
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description A parasitic or heteropagus twin is a grossly defective fetus (or fetus part) attached externally, with or without internal connections and is dependent on the cardiovascular system of the other twin (autosite) for survival. The estimated incidence is approximately 1 per 1 million live births. To date according to the authors’ knowledge; there are a few case reports published in the literature. Here we present a case of dorsolumbar parasitic twin with associated lipomyelomeningocele.
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spelling pubmed-93727442022-08-13 Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa() Hailu, Samuel Sisay Solomon, Daniel Zewdneh Gebremedhin, Yocabel Gorfu Nour, Amal Saleh Radiol Case Rep Case Report A parasitic or heteropagus twin is a grossly defective fetus (or fetus part) attached externally, with or without internal connections and is dependent on the cardiovascular system of the other twin (autosite) for survival. The estimated incidence is approximately 1 per 1 million live births. To date according to the authors’ knowledge; there are a few case reports published in the literature. Here we present a case of dorsolumbar parasitic twin with associated lipomyelomeningocele. Elsevier 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9372744/ /pubmed/35965936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.07.079 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Hailu, Samuel Sisay
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Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title_full Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title_fullStr Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title_full_unstemmed Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title_short Dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, Ethiopia, East Africa()
title_sort dorsolumbar parasitic twin associated with lipomyelomeningocele: a case report from a tertiary teaching hospital, ethiopia, east africa()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35965936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.07.079
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