Wednesday, November 07, 2007
India: Surgery successful on Indian girl born with 4 arms and 4 legs (4:30 p.m.)
BANGALORE-- A grueling, 24-hour-long operation to remove the extra limbs of an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was a spectacular success, leaving her in stable condition, doctors announced Wednesday.
A team of more than 30 physicians successfully removed the 2-year-old's extra limbs, salvaged her organs, and rebuilt her pelvis area, Dr. Sharan Patil said from a hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
"Beyond our expectations, the reconstruction worked wonderfully well," said Patil, the lead orthopedic surgeon during the operation. (AP)
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