Open AccessTriplets Pregnancy with a Normal Foetus and a Dicephalus Dibrachius Sirenomelus
Author(s) -
Vestergaard Per
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016347209154974
Subject(s) - medicine , fetus , pregnancy , monster , obstetrics , etiology , gynecology , pathology , biology , genetics , physics , quantum mechanics
A two‐headed monster and a normal foetus in the same pregnancy have not been described previously in the literature. The delivery of a case of this nature is reported and some speculations as to the aetiology of the formation of double monsters, based on experimental investigations of animal embryos, are outlined.