A 17-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, who lived with the limbs of his ‘parasitic twin’, is free now. A team of doctors at AIIMS, Delhi performed a rare surgery, removing an extra set of limbs and a pelvis attached to his torso.

In a ground-breaking medical achievement, doctors at AIIMS Delhi successfully performed a rare surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove two extra lower limbs hanging from his abdomen.The condition, known as an incomplete parasitic twin,

According to Dr. Asuri Krishna when the boy visited the OPD on January 28, medical staff initially thought he was carrying a child due to the bulge in his abdomen. However, upon examination, they found two fully formed lower limbs,

Doctors at AIIMS Delhi successfully removed two extra lower limbs from a 17-year-old boy suffering from an incomplete parasitic twin condition. The surgery involved separating shared blood vessels and nerves.

In extremely rare cases, one twin fails to fully develop, leaving only a part of it behind. This remnant, known as parasitic twin, remains attached to & dependent on surviving twin.

A rare parasitic twin protruding from the chest of a 17-year-old boy has been removed by surgeons in Delhi, India.

Teenager says a ‘new world has opened up’ to him following extremely rare surgery to remove 16kg twin’s limbs from his abdomen

AIIMS doctors successfully removed a 15 kg ‘parasitic twin’ from a 17-year-old boy from Unnao, UP. The complex surgery took 2 to 2.5 hours, involving multidisciplinary specialists. The boy, previously isolated and facing emotional difficulties,