Ten-month-old Manar Maged was suffering from one of the rarest birth defects -- craniopagus parasiticus -- a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull. The head that was ...

But she is stabilising” Egyptian doctors have said craniopagus parasiticus is so rare it is found in only one in a million birth defects. Dr Hanawi says only 180 similar cases have been ...

Images that appeared on the Internet in early 2005 were photographs of a 10-month-old Egyptian girl named Manar Maged who was born with craniopagus parasiticus, a very rare birth defect that ...

Manar Maged, who is now 11 months old, was born with craniopagus parasiticus, a very rare condition, which left her attached by the skull to the head of her underdeveloped twin. The twin could ...

Egyptian born Manar Maged was suffering from a very rare birth defect known as craniopagus parasiticus, a problem linked to that of conjoined twins joined at the skull. The head that was removed ...

That the "sneering" face had no audible voice comports with such information as we have on real cases of Craniopagus parasiticus, but the claims that it exhibited "every sign of intelligence" and ...

Maged was born March 30, 2004, with a rare birth defect called craniopagus parasiticus. The defect occurs when an embryo begins to split into identical twins but fails to complete the process ...

Manar Maged was born March 30 with a rare birth defect, craniopagus parasiticus, that occurs when an embryo begins to split into identical twins but fails to complete the process, leaving an ...

Conjoined twins who are classified as craniopagus (joined at the cranium) have a rare congenital anomaly. Despite advances in surgical techniques and critical care, the rate of complications and ...

rather than craniopagus parasiticus in which there is a second head with no body. The twins were born at their local hospital in the Kandhamal district of Orissa on March 9, 2015. The poverty ...

An attempt to remove an undeveloped second head from a baby girl born with one of the world's rarest birth defects ended in tragedy yesterday when she died hours after undergoing surgery.

Rebeca Martinez was born Dec. 17 with only the undeveloped head of her twin attached to the crown of her head, a condition known as craniopagus parasiticus. She is only the eighth documented case ...