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China: Baby born with three arms

Postby Class316 on Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:44 pm

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SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a 2-month-old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm.

Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed, said Dr. Chen Bochang, head of the orthopedics department at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

"His case is quite peculiar. We have no record of any child with such a complete third arm," Chen said in a telephone interview. (Watch Jie-jie in his hospital cradle -- :47)

The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, local media reports said. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

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Postby Zep on Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:07 pm

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Postby Class316 on Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:21 pm

Doctors remove 3rd arm from Chinese baby

SHANGHAI, China - A 2-month-old Chinese boy was recovering Tuesday after surgery to remove an unusually well-formed third arm.

Neither of the boy's two left arms was fully functional, but surgeons decided to remove the one growing closer to his chest after tests showed it was less developed.

Dr. Chen Bochang, the chief surgeon, said the three-hour operation at Shanghai Children's Medical Center went much better than expected.

"We found the nerves and blood vessels for the arm were formed just as they would be for a normal arm," Chen told reporters.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_on_he_me/china_three_armed_baby

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Postby Silverhaze on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:13 am

That could have come in handy!
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Postby Class316 on Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:54 pm

I wonder if he'll eventually be able to move both hands or just one hand.
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