Anatomical features and challenges in separation and reconstruction of heteropagus twins

• Main Authors: Rebecca Miriam Fierling (Author), Maya Horst Lüthy (Author), Rita Gobet (Author), Christoph Alexander Aufdenblatten (Author), Thomas Dreher (Author), Noemi Zweifel (Author), Sasha Job Tharakan (Author), Ueli Moehrlen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Heteropagus twins are an extremely rare condition and the term describes asymmetrical conjoined twins in which one twin ("autosite") has a mostly intact body and the other twin ("parasite") remains anatomically incomplete but is attached to and nourished by the other one. Autosit...