Doctors removed two siblings from the body of a one-year-old in Indonesia yesterday. The girl’s siblings were removed from her abdomen and the surviving triplet, who absorbed her unviable sisters, is expected to survive.
Doctors discovered the triplets when they examined the living child for what they thought were abdominal tumors but turned out to be partially formed human bodies.
The surgery took five hours, but was complicated. The aortas of the two absorbed triplets were still linked with the surviving girl's.
One of the bodies, according the story, was totally complete, except for arms and legs. And the other had ony a head, but with hair, and also part of a digestive system.
Doctors said the two would have been lifeless when the girl was born.
This makes little Lakshmi's recent twin removal seem half-way normal.
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