Toddler revered as Hindu goddess stable after 27-hour operation
(NEWSER) - Doctors successfully completed an extremely complicated 27-hour surgery on an eight-limbed Indian toddler whose village reveres her as a goddess. Lakshmi Tatma, 2, was born entangled with an incompletely developed headless twin sister. "Beyond our expectations, the reconstruction worked wonderfully well," said one of the surgeons. Doctors removed Lakshmi's two extra arms and legs, as well as excess organs, and rebuilt her pelvis. More»
