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Surgery for Indian girl with 8 limbs

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November 6, 2007

 

   

From CNN:

Surgeons in India said a mammoth 40-hour operation on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was going according to plan.

“So far, so good,” Dr. Sharan Patil, the head surgeon, told reporters after 10 hours of surgery to separate Lakshmi Tatma from her “parasitic twin.”

 

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