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 MIAMI
(Reuters) – An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the
Dominican Republic next month to remove an undeveloped second head from
a baby girl born with one of the world’s rarest birth defects, caused
when a conjoined twin fails to develop in the womb.
The baby, Rebeca Martinez, was born in mid-December at a hospital in
Santo Domingo with the head of an undeveloped twin attached to the
top of her skull, facing upward.
The infant is otherwise healthy but her brain cannot develop normally
unless the undeveloped head is removed, said Dr. Santiago Hazim, medical
director at the CURE Center for Orthopedic Specialties,
where the surgery is set for Feb. 6 or 7.
from Reuters
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