AIIMS doctors perform rare surgery, remove limbs of 17-yr-old’s parasitic twin: Why this is a breakthrough procedure for conjoined twins | Health and Wellness News
For all his 17 years, this teen boy from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, lived with the unwanted attention and the disparaging comments that came with his condition – a pair of extra legs that belonged to his underdeveloped twin and jutted out of his torso. Now, surgeons at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have managed to remove the remnants of his parasitic twin through a “rarest of rare” surgery and given him a chance to live the way he always wanted to. Though he cannot regain his lost childhood, the boy, a class VIII dropout, is thinking of rejoining school and living as a normal adult. “I couldn’t travel anywhere or do any physical activity. Now a new world has opened before me. I hope to study and get a job,” he told The Indian Express. WHY THIS IS A BREAKTHROUGH SURGERY According to Dr Asuri Krishna, additional professor of surgery who led the specialist team and conducted the two-and-a-half hour surgery on February 8, the 17-year-old was a rare case, only one of …
