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A Case of Conjoined Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos  and
Brigitte de la Burdé
Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Neurological, and Communication Disorders and Stroke, N1H, Bethesda, Maryland
Brigitte de la Burdé
Affiliation:
Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA
*
NINDS, N1H, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA

Abstract

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Among 56,249 maternities in the Collaborative Perinatal Project, 615 were twin maternities. One of these resulted in stillborn thoracoomphalopagus MZ female twins with multiple cardiovascular, alimentary and other malformations. The case is of further interst in that the mother had a surgically removed brain tumor in childhood and exhibited neurological symptoms and bizarre behavior before and during pregnancy. Drugs and treatments which she received during pregnancy are not known to be teratogenic.

Type
2. The Twinning Phenomenon
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 59 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1976

References

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