Surgical Separation of a Rare Case of Male Pygopagus

Introduction

Pygopagus twins are rare, accounting for 10–18% of all conjoined twins. Most surviving pygopagus twins are females and all surviving male pygopagus twins reported to date had a separate anus.

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