According to Dr. Asuri Krishna when the boy visited the OPD on January 28, medical staff initially thought he was carrying a child due to the bulge in his abdomen. However, upon examination, they found two fully formed lower limbs,

Doctors at Delhi AIIMS have successfully removed two 'parasitic legs' from a 17-year-old boy's abdomen, giving him a new lease of life.

Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his "parasitic" twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival.

The condition, known as an incomplete parasitic twin happens when an underdeveloped twin attaches to the host twin and survives by feeding off their body.

In a rare and complex surgery, a team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi separated a 15kg "parasitic twin" from a 17-year-old boy.

The extremely rare form of conjoined twinning had caused significant physical and emotional distress to the teenager

AIIMS doctors successfully removed a 15 kg ‘parasitic twin’ from a 17-year-old boy from Unnao, UP. The complex surgery took 2 to 2.5 hours, involving multidisciplinary specialists. The boy, previously isolated and facing emotional difficulties,