Re: Conjoined twins?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Oct 14 16:42:23 2003
i think CNN is in error -
Here's the leader on MSNBC
Separated Greek twins are ‘fine’
Four-month-old girls can look forward to normal life, doctors say
An x-ray photo of the Greek twins joined at the temple. A team of
Italian doctors separated the girls in a rare 12-hour operation over the
weekend.
http://msnbc.com/news/979670.asp?0si=-
art
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Terry J. DuBose wrote:
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>Here is the leader from the article... sounds fishy to me... Terry
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>"ROME, Italy (AP) -- Four-month-old twins, a boy and a girl, from Greece who were joined at the temple were successfully separated during surgery at a Rome hospital, a hospital official said. "
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>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.twins.ap/index.html
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>ultrasound@obgyn.net writes:
>>Conjoined Twins with different genders? Doubt it. Papers here are
>>talking about a set of pre-op conjoined twins from the Philippines -
>>cephalopagus as were the Egyptian twins.
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>>art
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>>At Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Ann Polin wrote:
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>>>Forgive me if there is something that I am missing, but does anyone know
>>>anything about the Greek conjoined twins that were joined at the temple
>>>and just separated? According to the article on CNN (see the website at:
>>>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.twins.ap/index.html
>>>they were a boy and a girl.
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>>art fougner, md
>>ich bin ein New Yorker
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