According to Dr. Asuri Krishna when the boy visited the OPD on January 28, medical staff initially thought he was carrying a child due to the bulge in his abdomen. However, upon examination, they found two fully formed lower limbs,

Teenager says a ‘new world has opened up’ to him following extremely rare surgery to remove 16kg twin’s limbs from his abdomen

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 underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival.

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

Doctors at Delhi AIIMS have successfully removed two 'parasitic legs' from a 17-year-old boy's abdomen, giving him a new lease of life.

The condition, known as an incomplete parasitic twin happens when an underdeveloped twin attaches to the host twin and survives by feeding off their body.

In a rare and complex surgery, a team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi separated a 15kg "parasitic twin" from a 17-year-old boy.

The extremely rare form of conjoined twinning had caused significant physical and emotional distress to the teenager