title: Case reports of 16 sets of conjoined twins from a Uganda hospital.
abstract: During a 10-year period (1971-1980) 16 sets of conjoined twins were delivered in the author's hospital. The incidence of those twins was 1 in 4242 deliveries, 1 in 69 multiple births, and 1 in 139 congenitally malformed babies. All diagnoses were made during labour or at operation and all babies were lost. There were no maternal deaths.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014428:Twins, Conjoined; D014454:Uganda