Egyptian doctors on Saturday removed an undeveloped head that was linked to the skull of a 10-month-old girl, an official from the health ministry said. Ahmed Barakat said surgeons at a hospital in the Nile Delta town of Benha, some 25 miles north of Cairo, treated the baby for craniopagus parasiticus, a rare birth defect where a child’s skull is linked to the head of an undeveloped twin. The rudimentary head is usually thought to be parasitic. He said the operation on Saturday lasted about 13 hours and that the girl, Manar, is now in intensive care.
