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Girl Born With 8 Limbs 'Very Well' After Surgery

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 14, 2007

BANGALORE, India - Looking healthy and alert, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs made her first public appearance Tuesday since surgeons removed the extra limbs nearly a week ago.

The 2-year-old known as Lakshmi appeared before reporters without the extra limbs that had led some in her rural village to revere her as an incarnation of the four-armed goddess she was named after.

Her doctors were encouraged by her progress and said she was responding well enough to treatment to leave the intensive care unit at Sparsh Hospital.

"She is coping very well and she is stable," chief surgeon Sharan Patil said. "Lakshmi is safe at the moment."

Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a "parasitic twin" that stopped developing in the womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped twin.

The Associated Press

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