[Eat Shit And Die]

Dominicans Maria Gabriela Hiciano (L) and Franklyn Martinez pose with their children, including spouses twins a month early Rebeca Martinez in image Released January 21, 2004. Rebeca Martinez was born in mid-December at a hospital in Santo Domingo with the head of an undeveloped twin attached to the top of her skull, facing upward. The baby is healthy, but his brain can not develop normally unless the head is removed underdeveloped, said Dr. Santiago Hazim, medical director at CURE International Centre for Orthopaedic Specialities, where the surgery is tentatively scheduled for February 6 or 7 in the Dominican Republic. The little girl was born with one of the world \ 's rare congenital anomalies, caused when a conjoined twins fails to develop in the uterus. "

[vagabond]

Aw- I hope they can get it off safely and the kid can be normal. The other kids are beautiful!

[Eat Shit And Die]

These photos are supposedly from Dec 2004 so it's probably possible to find out considering their RL names are there

[PoetsOfTheFall]

I found this but date is february 4
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-head...after-surgery/

[corpsehands]

Kids gonna have a strong neck if they can't get it off.

[kellyhound]

too bad it died during surgery

[Creepy]

An infant girl born with a second head bled to death Saturday following complex surgery in which doctors removed the partly formed twin that had threatened her brain, her parents and doctors said.

A medical team completed the operation Friday night but said 8-week-old Rebeca Martinez died seven hours after the surgery, which doctors believed to be the first of its kind.

"We knew this was a very risky surgery, and now we accept what God has decided," said the father, 29-year-old Franklin Martinez, who stood next to his wife at a hospital news conference, visibly exhausted and eyes swollen. "Rebeca is no longer with us physically, but no one will forget her."

The Dominican girl lost a lot of blood during the operation, which apparently caused a heart attack, said Dr. Jorge Lazareff, the lead brain surgeon.

"This was not a failure or an error," he said. "When we left here last night at midnight the girl was in stable condition. At some point in the middle of the night, she started to bleed."

Doctors had warned the baby would be highly susceptible to infection or hemorrhaging after the operation, which lasted about 11 hours.

"She was too little to withstand the surgery,'' said her mother, 26-year-old Maria Gisela Hiciano, sobbing softly.

Doctors said Rebeca had many transfusions during the operation, but that her blood wouldn't clot afterward due to the large amount of blood the body kept trying to pump to the second head.

"In that case, you can't do anything. This is the worst complication that can happen in this kind of surgery," said Dr. Benjamin Rivera, one of two lead surgeons.

With its own partly developed brain, ears eyes and lips, the second head was growing faster than the lower one, said Lazareff, who in 2002 led a team that successfully separated conjoined Guatemalan twin girls in 2002.

Doctors will learn more in the coming months as they review details of Rebeca's operation, said Lazareff, who is director of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California at Los Angeles' Mattel Children's Hospital.

"It was probably an imbalance of blood pressure" that led to the hemorrhaging, he said.

It will be up to the parents whether an autopsy is performed, Lazareff said. The doctor said such surgeries still could be viable in the future.

Without an operation, her doctors said Rebeca would have barely been able to lift her head at 3 months old. They said the pressure from the second head, attached on top of the first and facing up, would have prevented Rebeca's brain from developing.

During Friday's surgery, 18 surgeons, nurses and doctors worked in rotations to cut off the undeveloped tissue, clip the veins and arteries, and close the skull using a bone and skin graft from the second head.

"We feel like we've lost a family member," said Dr. Santiago Hazim, medical director of Santo Domingo's Center for Orthopedic Specialties, where the surgery was performed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-head...after-surgery/

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Thanks Creepy

[GODREKR]

[smnewstead]

Okay, the infant is not an "it," and neither is the "head." With a partially-developed brain, the "head" is a child without a body.