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Succesful surgery in a Girl with eight limbs

Lakshmi is the hindu goddess of of wealth, fortune, love and beauty, the lotus flower and fertility. She is represented by an icon of a lady with four arms.

Lakshmi Tatma is a girl who is two years old but she was born with 8 limbs, because she is joined at the pelvis to what is, in fact, a headless, undeveloped twin (parasitic twin or to be more specific, ischiopagus cojoined twin).

This is surely an abnormal feature and it has attracted media attention worldwide.

The 24-hour-long surgery to remove the extra limbs of this Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was a success, doctors announced Wednesday.

A team of more than 30 physicians removed Lakshmi’s extra limbs, salvaged her organs, and rebuilt her pelvis area, Dr. Sharan Patil said from a hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, India.

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6 Responses to “Succesful surgery in a Girl with eight limbs”

  1. that is awesome.

  2. I am amazed. Truly incredible science.

  3. I am just grateful that the family did not take her birthday – the festival of the many-armed goddess for whom she is named – as a sign that she should stay that way!!!

  4. it looks like if there twins stuck together in theres missing a head like if a another baby was to develop but i was amaze shes so adorable

  5. i just wish her all the best and a normally healthy life…God be with her as always

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    http://jeffreyleow.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/arte-y-pico-award/


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