Baby has extra limbs removed after being born with four hands and four feet

April 15, 2014  23:01

Doctors have successfully removed a baby's extra limbs after it was born with four hands and four feet.

The 13-day-old boy, from Huizhou, was born joined to a headless parasitic twin joined at the torso on April 2. That has now been removed.

Yu Jiakang, chief surgeon at Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center said: 'They were supposed to be twins, but one had underdeveloped and became deformed.'

The conjoined twins weighed just over 3kg before surgery, with the removed parasitic foetus weighing 0.6kg.

According to the Daily Mail, the baby was diagnosed with pneumonia and congenital heart disease, which is common among children in China, before surgery.

His father, named only as Mr Chen, said he had taken his son to many hospitals near his home but none have been able to give him reasons for the deformity.

Mr Chen said he blamed himself for not taking good care of his wife and son during pregnancy.

The child is now in a stable condition at a hospital in China's southern Guangdong province four days after the surgery.

 

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