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| Indian girl separated from twin |
| Doctors in India, who operated on a two-year-old child who was born with four arms and four legs, say the surgery has been successful.
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| INDIA
, 7-November-2007
0:52:25 AM |
| Lakshmi Tatma was joined at the pelvis to what was, in effect, a headless, undeveloped twin.
A team of surgeons in the southern city of Bangalore operated on Lakshmi for 27 hours to separate her spinal column and kidney from that of her twin.
It is hoped the procedure will allow her to survive beyond adolescence.
"Lakshmi is stable and sound," the doctor leading the operation, Sharan Patil, told a press conference which was shown live on television channels across India.
'Optimistic'
Dr Patil said Lakshmi was still on ventilation and would be closely monitored for two to three days.
Dr Sharan said he was "optimistic about the child's survival".
The surgery began at 0700 local time (0130 GMT) on Tuesday and ended at 1000 local time (0430 GMT) on Wednesday.
The child has been hailed by some in her village in the northern state of Bihar as the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi.
Conjoined twins are rare, occurring in about one in every 200,000 births.
They originate from a single fertilised egg, so they are always identical and of the same sex.
The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5% and 25%.
Historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins - more than 70% of which have been female twins.
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