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"Girl with 8 limbs"
Lakshmi Tatma was borned joined to a "parasitic twin" and the 8-limbed baby is planned to undergo surgery to remove four of her 8 limbs.
Complications for the girl born with 8 limbs are major:Lakshmis two spines are merged, she has foyr kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities, plus she cannot stand up or walk because of her extra limbs.
Doctors are working to remove kakshmi''s extra limbs and organs so she will have a normal anatomy, sai Dr.Patil Mamatha of Sparsh Hospital in Banglore, India. There is a 25% chance of the 8-limbed girl will not survive the 40-hour operation involving 30 surgeans working round the clock to save her.
The girl with 8 limbs, Lakshmi, is named after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of wealth, and some in her poor village in the northern state of Bihar revere her as a goddess.
Others sought to make money from her. Her parents, Shambhu and Poonam, hid her after a circus apparently tried to buy the girl, according to a report in the Hindustani Times.
Published: March 30, 2008
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