A pair of conjoined twins have been born in India with two
heads but just one body.
The boys' heads, nervous systems and backbones are separate.
The backbones are joined below the pelvis and they share a rib cage and shoulder
girdle.
Doctors say they believe they can save the lives of the boys
who were born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Wednesday.
The disease which is known as Dicephalic Parapagus is very
common amongst girls and rare with boys and in a vast majority, children born
with this disease are born dead but doctors say there is hope for these ones.
Conjoined twins occur in about one in 100,000 births.
They develop when one fertilised egg fails to separate
fully, or the egg separates and then fuses together again inside the womb.
the rib cage and shoulder girdle sharing sounds extremely risky to separate. there are many indescribable events that have no explanation. How do these things happen to growing foetus?
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