Elio De Angelis
Dept. of Experimental Medicine and Pathology. History of Medicine Section "La Sapienza" University of Rome
Keywords:
Ischiopagus , Conjoined Twins, History of Malformations
Abstract
Surgical pre and post operativo problems involving the separation of conjoined twins of ischiopagus type make actual the interpretation of a relief coming from the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Florence and dating probably from XVth century. The work has been sculptured after the death of a couple of ischiopagus twins in the same Hospital in 1316. Their birth is registered in Giovanni Villani's Cronaca in Petrarca's Rerum Memorandarum Libri.
