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-- Former Oscar winner Ray Milland, pictured below:
"It's kind of fun."
-- non-Oscar winner Rosie Grier, pictured above.
storyBENHA, Egypt (Reuters) -- Egyptian doctors said they removed a second head from a 10-month-old girl suffering from one of the rarest birth defects in an operation on Saturday.
Abla el-Alfy, a consultant in pediatric intensive care, told Reuters at the hospital in Benha, near Cairo, that Manar Maged was in a serious but improving condition after the procedure to treat her for craniopagus parasiticus -- a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull.
"We are still working on the baby. After surgery ... you get unstable blood pressure, you get fever. But she is stabilizing," Alfy said. "We have some improvement."
As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had developed no body. The head that was removed from Manar had been capable of smiling and blinking but not independent life, doctors said.
"Tell me about it."
-- Former Oscar winner Ray Milland, pictured below:
"It's kind of fun."
-- non-Oscar winner Rosie Grier, pictured above.
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 02-20-2005 at 01:00 PM.
You've got to wonder if those parents see an extra head with blinking eyes on that kid for the rest of her life.
And you think brothers and sisters fight over things now!
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