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Himanshu Menghwani¹, Enono Yhoshu¹, Soumya Kashiv¹

¹Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

|May 1, 2026

Abstract

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Parasitic twins are a rare variety of congenital twins. Rachipagus is a type where a partially formed twin is attached to the spine. We present a rachipagus case managed at our institute by a multidisciplinary team. We managed this case with a staged approach. During the first surgery, coil embolization was done for the feeder vessel, followed by parasitic limbs excision, while lipomeningomyelocele (Lipo-MMC) was repaired during the second surgery.

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Autosite heteropagus lipomeningomyelocele parasitic twin rachipagus

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