Re: Conjoined twins?
From: Philippe Jeanty (jeanty@TheFetus.net)
Sun Feb 8 13:54:39 2004
That is the question of the week :-) . Actually you have until the 19th to
suggest 3 possible explanations. Good reading :-)
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From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Terry
J DuBose
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 2:09 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
Subject: Re: Conjoined twins?
OK, so this looks like thoracopagus, single cord & placenta. Ambiguous
gender, or one female & one male? Impossible?
What are the possible explanations of this happening... embryologically, I
mean?
Terry J DuBose, M.S., RDMS
Little Rock, Arkansas
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:13:51 -0600 evsono@pipeline.com (art fougner, md)
writes:
> Philippe -
>
> Dr. Sarraf's case shows there are no always and no nevers.
>
> art
>
> At Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Philippe Jeanty wrote:
> >
> >OK for those who were waiting the images I was going to post...
> they are now
> >available on http://www.TheFetus.net . Click on Current case of the
> week (the first
> >image on the screen)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf
> Of art
> >fougner, md
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:44 PM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
> >Subject: Re: Conjoined twins?
> >
> >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:
> >>
> >>Here is the leader from the article... sounds fishy to me...
> Terry
> >>
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>"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. "
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.twins.ap/index.html
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>--
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> >>
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> >>Terry
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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.
> >>>
> >>>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
> >>
> >>Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
> >>Assistant Professor & Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography
> Program
> >>University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
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> >>http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
> >>
> >--
> >art fougner, md
> >ich bin ein New Yorker
> >
>
> --
> art fougner, md
> ich bin ein New Yorker
>
