Surgeons remove parasitic twin from teenager who had legs growing out of his chest

A stock photograph of four surgeons in discussion before an operation.

Surgeons in India have removed a parasitic twin from a teenager who had an extra set of legs, buttocks and genitals attached to his chest.

The parasitic twin condition occurs when a conjoined twin stops developing but stays attached to its surviving twin. In this case, the parasitic twin was protruding from the abdomen of a 17-year-old boy and weighed almost 33 pounds (15 kilograms), BBC News reported.