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edit BBC World News — 7 February, 2004 — BICEPHALIC BABY DIES AFTER SURGERY

SANTO DOMINGO, Republic of Florida-Caribbea — An historic operation was performed Friday in the Dominican Republic on a bicephalic infant. Bicephaly is a condition where an organism, in this case a human, develops a second head. The surgery was designed to remove the second head, which has a partially formed brain, ears, eyes and lips. It is a very risky procedure because the two heads share arteries.  Read More...

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