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Craniopagus twins are conjoined twins who are fused at the cranium. [1] The union may occur on any portion of the cranium, but does not primarily involve either the face or the foramen magnum; the two brains are usually separate, but they may share some brain tissue. Conjoined twins are genetically identical and always share the same sex. [2]
The CDC and National Birth Defect Project studied the incidence of birth defects in the US. Key findings include: [ citation needed ] Down syndrome was the most common condition with an estimated prevalence of 14.47 per 10,000 live births, implying about 6,000 diagnoses each year.
Kansas City woman gives birth to rare mono mono twins Twins born 24 days apart go home -- and dad proposes to mom 'Mono mono' twin babies to head home soon. Show comments. Advertisement.
Heart disorders (Congenital heart defects) Hemifacial microsomia; Holoprosencephaly; Huntington's disease; Hirschsprung's disease, or congenital aganglionic megacolon; Hypertrichosis; Hypoglossia; Hypomelanism or hypomelanosis (albinism) Hypospadias; Haemophilia; Heterochromia; Hemochromatosis
An elevated MSAFP measured at 16–18 weeks gestation is a good predictor of open neural tube defects, however the test has a very high false positive rate, (2% of all women tested in Ontario, Canada between 1993 and 2000 tested positive without having an open neural tube defect, although 5% is the commonly quoted result worldwide) and only a ...
It's crazy how high risk mono-mono twins can be, and how good they're doing now, it's really a blessing," says Magnani. Ava and Anna were delivered by C-section on Thursday, weighing just four and ...
Fetus in fetu may be a parasitic twin fetus growing within its host twin. Very early in a monozygotic twin pregnancy, in which both fetuses share a common placenta, one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The enveloped twin becomes a parasite, in that its survival depends on the survival of the host twin, by drawing on the host twin's ...
An Alabama woman who has an extremely rare double uterus and got pregnant in both gave birth to twins last week ... It affects only 0.3% of women and is considered one of the least common uterine ...