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Xiphopagus conjoined twins: a 300-year review of the obstetric, morphopathologic, neonatal, and surgical parameters.

Obstetric, morphopathologic, neonatal, and surgical features of 36 reported cases of xiphopagus conjoined twins were correlated and reveal: (1) a 6% incidence of prenatal diagnosis; (2) a 36% rate of dystocia; (3) a 19% incidence of stillbirths; (4) variation in the extent of fusion; (5) a high rate of occurrence of concurrent congenital malformations, not limited to a conjoined area, especially of the heart (25%) and gastrointestinal tract (33%); (6) the importance of diagnostic tests to elucidate conjoined or abnormal structures because of the high rate of concurrent malformations; (7) opisthotonos as the body alignment position of choice; (8) a 69% female sex bias; (9) surgical separation usually in the first year of life; and (10) a 53% survival rate. This paper correlates the world literature for xiphopagus conjoined twins for the past 300 years.

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