Re: Conjoined twins with different genders
From: Wolfgang Moroder, M.D. (wolfgang.moroder@tin.it)
Thu Oct 16 11:12:52 2003
Art, the monochorionic pregnancy with discordant sex did NOT originate
from ART: that is it what distiguishes my case from the one described in
the NEJM. I know, I should write a letter to the journal.
Wolfgang
At Thu, 16 Oct 2003, art fougner, md wrote:
>
>Wolfgang -
>
>is your case associated with Assisted Repro Technology or au naturel
>(sp)?
>
>art
>
>At Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Moroder, M.D. wrote:
>>
>>OK, let' s get more serious. I am working on a case of monochorionic
>>twins with discordant gender, discordant karyotype on fibroblast culture
>>and mixed blood (both karyotypes - XX,XY) in both's blood lymphocytes at
>>birth - that is the evidence of a common placental circulation, the
>>evidence that the twins were monochorionic, besides sonographic evidence
>>of monochorionicity by a first trimeste scan. Such a case has been
>>published by Souter in the NEJM : Volume 349:154-158 July 10, 2003
>>Number 2
>>http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/349/2/154
>>There must be an infinite range of variation in nature - just look in
>>the animal species. Ciao Wolfgang
>>
>>At Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Mireille Bonneau wrote:
>>>
>>>Ça, pour être grand, il est grand!!!!
>>>Un gage......
>>>
>>>Le 14/10/03 21:54, « Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD » <jeanty@TheFetus.net> a
>>>écrit :
>>>
>>>> Grand cornichon :)
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
>>>> Philippe Coquel
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:22 PM
>>>> To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
>>>> Subject: Re: Conjoined twins with different genders
>>>>
>>>> sorry
>>>> I didn't know
>>>> To all recipients of list Ultrasound list: delete my message
>>>> :-)))))))))))))))))))
>>>
>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD" <jeanty@TheFetus.net>
>>>> To: "Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND" <ultrasound@dns.obgyn.net>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:14 PM
>>>> Subject: RE: Conjoined twins with different genders
>>>>
>>>>> Shuut it was supposed to become a case of the week !!!!!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
>>>>> Philippe Coquel
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:01 PM
>>>>> To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
>>>>> Subject: Conjoined twins with different genders
>>>>>
>>>>> During the Isuog meeting, somebody gave photographs of conjoined twins
>>>> with
>>>>> different genders to Ph Jeanty
>>>>> Philippe, could you send more informations about this case
>>>>> Ph
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "art fougner, md" <evsono@pipeline.com>
>>>>> To: "Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND" <ultrasound@dns.obgyn.net>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:47 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Conjoined twins?
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> art
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Ann Polin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Ann Polin, BS, RDMS
>>>>>>> Program Chair
>>>>>>> Diagnostic Ultrasound, R130D
>>>>>>> Bellevue Community College
>>>>>>> 3000 Landerholm Circle SE
>>>>>>> Bellevue, WA 98007-6484
>>>>>>> USA
>>>>>>> Telephone: +1 (425) 564-4181
>>>>>>> Fax: +1 (425) 564-4193
>>>>>>> Email: apolin@bcc.ctc.edu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> art fougner, md
>>>>>> ich bin ein New Yorker
>>>>>>
>>>mirbonneau@wanadoo.fr S1 SCF 93 Neuilly-Plaisance
>>>secrétaire de l'AGEOL
>>
>>--
>>Wolfgang Moroder, MD
>>Prenatal Unit
>>Bolzano General Hospital Italy
>>
>--
>art fougner, md
>ich bin ein New Yorker
>
--
Wolfgang Moroder, MD
Prenatal Unit
Bolzano General Hospital Italy
