Friday, 23 August 2013

The baby with 2 heads: Doctors remove growth that weighed a kilo from eight-month-old Indian boy

An eight-month-old baby who grew a second ‘head’ has undergone surgery to have it removed. Doctors say the second head was a ‘parasitic twin’, weighed almost a kilo and had brain tissue within it. The child, known as Tofajjal, was suffering from a rare disease called encephalomeningocele, said to affect one in 40,000-45,000 babies.

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