Author:
Castilla E.E.,Lopez-Camelo J.S.,Orioli I.M.,Sánchez O.,Paz J.E.
Abstract
AbstractTwenty–three cases of symmetrical conjoined twins were registered by the Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) in 1,714,952 births, which were observed during the 1967-1986 period in 95 maternity hospitals distributed in eleven Latin-American countries. This results in a birth prevalence rate of about 1/75,000 births. The secular and geographic distribution of this material do not depart from random in spite of one hospital with three cases, and two hospitals with two cases each, within a short time period. These 23 cases include one diprosopus, 3 dicephalus, one ischiopagus, 5 pygopagus, none dipygus, 3 syncephalus, none craniopagus, 9 thoracopagus, one omphalopagus, and none rachipagus. Sex distribution is even, with 12 male and 11 female cases.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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