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8-Limbed Girl's Surgery a Success

Toddler revered as Hindu goddess stable after 27-hour operation

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 7, 2007 6:37 AM CST

(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... Read full story »

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