Doctors in India operating on a two-year-old child who was born with four arms and four legs say that the surgery is going well.
Lakshmi Tatma is joined at the pelvis to what is, in effect, a headless, undeveloped twin.
A team of surgeons in the southern city of Bangalore is working in shifts to separate Lakshmi's spinal column and kidney from that of her twin.
It is hoped the procedure will allow her to survive beyond adolescence.
The rest of the article here: BBC NEWS
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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