Hovorakova M, Peterkova R, Likovsky Z, Peterka M
Department of Teratology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences CR, Prague, Czech Republic.
Reprod Toxicol. 2008 Oct;26(2):178-82. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2008.06.005. Epub 2008 Jun 20.
Conjoined twins are rare variants of monozygotic twins, which result from an incomplete late division of the embryonic disk. Here we report the rarest case of conjoined twins - the male cephalothoracopagus janiceps disymmetros - born in prenatal week 30, from the archive of the Department of Teratology of the Institute of Experimental Medicine AS CR in Prague. The crown-rump length of each twin, 21cm, corresponded to prenatal week 22 in a normal gravidity. The head, chest and upper portion of the abdomen of the twins were fused. The anatomical features of these extremely rare conjoined twins and the observed external anomalies as a narrow nose with a single nostril, male hypoplastic genitalia, partially duplicated sella turcica, spina bifida and further abnormalities are described and documented.
联体双胎是单卵双胎的罕见变体,由胚盘晚期不完全分裂所致。在此,我们报道了一例极为罕见的联体双胎——男性头部胸部联体不对称双胎——于孕30周出生,来自布拉格实验医学研究所致畸学系的存档资料。每个胎儿的顶臀长度为21厘米,在正常妊娠情况下相当于孕22周。两个胎儿的头部、胸部和腹部上半部分融合在一起。本文描述并记录了这些极为罕见的联体双胎的解剖特征以及观察到的外部异常情况,如窄鼻伴单个鼻孔、男性生殖器发育不全、蝶鞍部分重复、脊柱裂及其他异常。