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AP: Study Shows Fraternal Twins Can Share Placenta
From an Associated Press report:
------- Study Shows Fraternal Twins Can Share Placenta Linda A. Johnson Associated Press Wednesday, July 9, 2003; 5:02 PM Contradicting nearly all the medical textbooks, doctors have proven for the first time that fraternal, or nonidentical, twins can share a placenta. Until now, doctors believed that only identical twins -- which come from a single, split embryo -- can share a placenta, the mass of tissue inside the uterus that delivers nourishment to the fetus via the umbilical cord. In Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, doctors at the University of Washington in Seattle reported that a 48-year-old woman gave birth about two years ago to male and female twins nourished by the same placenta. Each baby had his or her own umbilical cord and amniotic sac. .. . . . ------- For more, see, e.g.: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34108-2003Jul9.html?nav=hptoc_h Nick -- Nick Theodorakis |
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