Teenager born with extra arms, fingers hanging from chest for surgery



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A 14-year-old girl, born with two extra arms and half-formed fingers hanging from her chest, will undergo surgery to remove the limbs. Veronica Cominguez lives in Iligan City, Philippines, and lives with the extra parts – belonging to a parasitic twin that has not developed properly – for more than a decade.

The girl will be flown to neighboring Thailand In the following weeks, the residents managed to raise money for her operation.

"When I was little, I thought it was just a foot, but as I grew up, she was getting bigger." Mail. She added that the parts are heavy and limit her movement. "She continues to wobble" and sometimes lets out liquid that makes her dress wet.

Veronica's mother, Flora Cominguez, stated that she could not see a doctor properly during her pregnancy and that her other twin child did not develop fully. Speaking of the discharge coming out of the extra limbs, she said: "The liquid coming out of the opening smells bad, like human shedding."

While the family worried about Veronica's future, his doctor told the family that extra limbs can be removed by a simple operation.

"Most of these cases can be removed because, usually, the body structures involved are not essential," Dr. Beda Espineda, a pediatric surgeon at the Philippine Children's Medical Center, said: said. "Most of them are simply attached to the skin or the bones. For the surgeons, it's easy to remove them."

A spokesman for Barangay Council of Kabacsanan said, "It has been arranged for Veronica that she will live a normal and healthy life after that … Life has not been easy for her but it's a very smart, intelligent and mature girl … She's a wonderful student … Everyone is very happy for her that she may soon have an operation. "[19659002ParasitictwinsalsoknownasjointconjoinedtwinsoccurwhenatwinembryobeginstodevelopinuterobutthepairdoesnotseparatecompletelyandanembryomaintainsdominantdevelopmentTheundevelopedtwiniscalledparasiteratherthanspouseTheindependenttwiniscalledautosite

Last year, in May, a baby born in northern India with two heads underwent surgery to remove the parasitic twin that " was feeding on his blood. A team of surgeons removed the head bent over the little girl's chest in a four-hour operation.

 Surgery this photo, a surgeon and his theater team perform keyhole surgery to remove a gallbladder from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England on March 16, 2010. Photo: Getty Images / Christopher Furlong

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