Twins, conjoined, duplicata incompleta dipygus

Luiz Eduardo Machado, MD

Intro, Centro de Treinamento em Diagnóstico por Imagem, Salvador – Bahia – Brasil

This is a term fetus, investigated with 3D ultrasound, that demonstrates a dipygus form of duplicata incompleta. Note the excellent correlation between the 3D rendering and the actual fetus.

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3D rendering, note that most of the images were obtained with the fetus looking away from the transducer.

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The newborn.

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