Doctors removing girl’s extra limbs
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An extensive operation on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs went “wonderfully well,” doctors said today in Bangalore, India, as they announced that she was safe and stable after more than 24 hours of surgery.
A team of 30 doctors successfully removed the child’s extra limbs and rebuilt her pelvis area, Dr. Sharan Patil said.
The girl is named Lakshmi, after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth.
Her parents say she is revered in her village in the northeastern state of Bihar.
“Everybody considers her a goddess at our village,” said her father, Shambhu, who goes by one name.
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