Abstract
Congenital accessory limbs are exceedingly rare anomalies, only two having been reported previously. We present three additional cases, two of these with associated spinal lesions a phenomenon reported only once in the past.
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Sharma, L., Singh, R.B., Bhargava, J.S. et al. Accessory limbs with spinal lesions. Pediatr Surg Int 6, 227–229 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176077
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