Technically these are called parasitic twins, not second heads. It is literally one of a pair of conjoined twins that dies in utero and gets partially resorbed by the surviving twin.
Does anyone know which famous actor had a parasitic twin removed? I don't mean the nurse on South Park, either.
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Infant Girl Dies in Dominican Republic Following Surgery to Remove Second Head
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - An infant girl died Saturday after surgery to remove a second head, her mother said.
A medical team completed the operation Friday evening but said 8-week-old Rebeca Martinez had been susceptible to infection or hemorrhaging. The baby died 12 hours after the surgery, believed to be the first of its kind.
The second head, which doctors said threatened the girl's development, grew from the top of Rebeca's skull and had its own partly developed brain, ears, eyes and lips.
During the surgery, 18 surgeons, nurses and doctors had taken several 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.
The operation was critical because the head on top was growing faster than the lower one, said Dr. Jorge Lazareff, the lead brain surgeon and director of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California at Los Angeles' Mattel Children's Hospital.
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