What is it about?
Conjoined twins are a particularly rare condition, requiring perfect understanding of their anatomy and multidisciplinary intervention to free them from their attachments.
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Why is it important?
Thoracopagus twins are connected by the chest and umbilicus and are the most common of all variants, but have a low survival rate. We report the case of a 18-year-old female patient, pregnant at 12 weeks amenorrhoea, who consulted in the maternity emergency department with a clinical picture of a miscarriage in the process of expulsion of a conjoined thoracopagus siames twins.
Perspectives
Siamese twins are one of the rarest forms of twin pregnancy, and are homozygotic twins [1]. They occur in 1/50000 to 1/100000 births, with a female predominance of approximately 70% [2]. Early detection relies on obstetrical ultrasound, so therapeutic termination of pregnancy may be indicated. The prognosis depends essentially on the location, type and extension of common organs, as well as the association with other malformations [2].
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This page is a summary of: Conjoined Thoracopagus Siames Twins : A Case Report from the Casablanca University Hospital, Journal of Case Reports and Medical History, July 2024, Acquire Publications LLC,
DOI: 10.54289/jcrmh2400138.
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