Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Baby Born With Third Arm

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

Jie-jie

Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed.

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. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli.

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