It is an extremely rare type of cojoined twin where a baby is born with an underdeveloped twin attached to its body. This condition is also known as vestigial twins.

The 17-year-old, who is from Uttar Pradesh, India, was born with his 'parasitic' twin attached to his abdomen and had a fully developed extra set of legs, as well as a pelvis. A parasitic twin is ...

Surgeons in India have removed a parasitic twin from a teenager who had an extra set of legs, buttocks and genitals attached to his chest. The parasitic twin condition occurs when a conjoined twin ...

Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his "parasitic" twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an ...

AIIMS doctors successfully removed a 15 kg ‘parasitic twin’ from a 17-year-old boy from Unnao, UP. The complex surgery took 2 to 2.5 hours, involving multidisciplinary specialists. The boy ...

A team of around 20 doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) successfully removed a parasitic twin, weighing about 15-16 kilos, from the abdomen of a 17-year-old boy in what ...

Living with the parasitic twin was difficult for the teenager, who had dropped out of school. He is now looking forward to a normal life. "I couldn't travel anywhere or do any physical activity ...