Cardiovascular Malformations in Lecanosomatopagus Conjoined Twins: A Cardiologic Curiosity

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Abstract

Female conjoined twins were delivered after 42 weeks’ gestation, but they died within a few minutes of birth. They were dicephalus, dibrachius and dipus conjoined twins with two separate spines and fusion of the trunk and the pelvis. The pericardial sac was common, and the heart was a single structure. The atrial complex was a common chamber with an attempt at division into two parts by a circular ridge of tissue; the ventricular complex was formed by three chambers which were all communicating between each other in the superior margin of their muscular interventricular septum.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1989

Publication date (Print): 1989

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2008

Volume: 76

Issue: 1

Pages: 67-70

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Department of Cardiology, Pediatric Emergency Room, and Institute of Pathology, Central Emek Hospital, Afula, Israel

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Publisher ID: 174473 Other ID: Cardiology 1989;76:67–70

DOI: 10.1159/000174473

PubMed ID: 2706646

SO-VID: 0f1ad47c-fb87-4b8e-a1ea-50429c0f094a

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History

Date received : 20 April 1988

Date accepted : 18 September 1988

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Pages: 4

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