The Heteropagus Conjoined Twins of NDU Sule, Nigeria

From the Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University, A.B.U. Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. ! HE INCIDENCE of conjoined twins is not accurately known because most of them end in abortions or stillbirths and hence may not be recorded.1 The best known type is the diplopagus in which both members are approximately equal in size and joined symmetrically to each other. The heteropagus types are much more rare. One member, the autosite, is normal or nearly so. This bears an incomplete member, the parasite., which is completely dependent upon it.2 In this report, we describe a pair of heteropagus twins recently separated at the

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