Boy with four arms and four legs

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Boy with four arms and four legs has extra limbs removed

Yahoo!7 April 17, 2014, 1:14 pm

Boy with four arms and four legs has extra limbs removedBoy with four arms and four legs has extra limbs removed

A child born with four legs and for arms in China has had the extra limbs removed.

WARNING: Graphic image

The baby had the surgery son April 11 at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center in the Guangdong province.

The deformity reportedly happened after the child's parasitic twin fused with the boy while in the womb.

“They were supposed to be twins, but one had underdeveloped and became deformed,” chief surgeon Yu Jiakang told the Global Times.

The boy is in a stable condition, but was also diagnosed with pneumonia and congenital heart disease prior to going under the knife.

Despite five examinations prior to the birth of the boy, nothing had showed up abnormal, according to the boy's father "Mr Chen".

However, the father still felt guilty about his son's affliction, and tod ImagineChina he wished he had done more to take care of this wife.

“I only cared about my work,” he said.

“I just thought of making money instead of taking [my wife] to hospital for a medical checkup.”

A baby boy has been born with four arms and four legs. Photo: Imaginechina/Corbis

 

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Baby born with 4 feet and 4 hands

China.org April 18, 2014

A newborn baby with four arms and four legs has surgery to remove the extra limbs last Friday. [photo / Yangcheng Evening News]

A newborn baby with four arms and four legs had surgery to remove the extra limbs last Friday.

The boy, born on April 2 in Huizhou, South China's Guangdong Province, had a birth weight of just 3.05Kg, according to Yangcheng Evening News.

"The boy was born joined at the torso to a headless parasitic twin. They were supposed to be twins, but one had underdeveloped and became deformed" Yu Jiakang, chief surgeon at Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, told the Yangcheng Evening.

The baby's father said his wife had undergone five examinations prior to the birth but doctors found no abnormalities.

The surgery was successful and cost about 80,000 yuan (about US $12,860). The baby is now in stable condition.