Doctors Separate Legs of 'Mermaid' Baby (OK some good LBN)

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Peru-Mermaid-Baby.html?

June 1, 2005
Doctors Separate Legs of 'Mermaid' Baby
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:46 a.m. ET

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Doctors fully separated the fused legs of a baby girl known as Peru's ''mermaid'' early Wednesday, calling the delicate procedure a ''true success.''

Doctors performing the 4 1/2 hour surgery had planned to begin repairing the birth defect only up to the child's knees, but the procedure exceeded the expectations of the medical team.

''This is the final result that we have come to in this extraordinary surgical intervention,'' said Dr. Luis Rubio, holding up 13-month-old Milagros Cerron's legs in a V-shape, displaying the line of stitches extending up from her heels to her inner thighs. ''We have mobility of the independent knee joints.

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[lady lib]

1. Thanks for posting some good news.

eom

[Journeyman]

2. "These are the days of miracle and wonder. . .

". . . the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart. . ."

-Paul Simon

[cal04]

3. Peru's 'miracle Baby' Shown to Media

(I hope they will continue to help her with whatever she needs)

Peru's 'miracle Baby' Shown to Media for First Time After Surgery

Milagros Cerron, 13-month old rests in her bed in a hospital in Lima, Peru on Thursday, June 2, 2005. Cerron was stable and awake 15 hours after doctors separated her fused legs in only the second such successful operation on record to correct 'mermaid syndrome,' her doctors said.






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