Occurrences
Diprosopus often occurs in combination with other congenital disorders, particularly anencephaly, neural tube defect and cardiac malformations. When present, the brain may show abnormalities ranging from partial to complete duplication of brain structures, and/or underdevelopment of brain tissues. Humans
Most human infants with diprosopus are stillborn. Known instances of humans with diprosopus surviving for longer than minutes to hours past birth are very rare; only a few are recorded. In 2002 and 2003, two living male infants with partial diprosopus were described in the medical literature in separate case reports. One infant was born with duplication of the nose and the cerebral frontal lobes, two widely spaced eyes, a small, underdeveloped central eye socket, and a large, asymmetric mouth. The other infant was born with duplication of the upper and lower jaw, two tongues arising from the same base, cleft palate, a slightly divided tip of the nose, and two widely spaced eyes, as well as absence of the corpus callosum, duplication of the pituitary gland and stalk, and abnormalities in the midbrain. Because they were born with a milder, partial form of diprosopus, both infants were considered candidates for surgical correction of their abnormal facial features. Spanish case
In January 1775, a Spanish family gave birth to a girl with diprosopus. She had 3 eyes (one a combination of 2), 2 noses, 2 mouths, and 3 chins. The child was taken on tour from village to village, and gained much attention in Spain and neighboring countries.
In 2014, Frank and Louie died at the age of fifteen. See also
Conjoined twins
Craniopagus parasiticus
Cyclopia
Durga, a three-eyed Hindu goddess
Edward Mordake, a disputed story of a 19th-century man with a face on the back of his head
Futakuchi-onna, a female Japanese yōkai with mouth on back of her head/hair
Janus, a Roman god with two faces
Kara Mia, a Philippine TV series that tells the story of a young woman with two faces divided in one body. Polycephaly

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Page for sonic hedgehog homolog (SHH) at The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)
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