A 2-year-old girl is recovering after doctors in Bangalore, India, removed her two extra arms and two extra legs in a 27-hour operation, according to CNN.com.
The additional limbs belonged to a parasitic twin who stopped developing in the mother's womb and had attached to the girl's pelvis, CNN.com reported.
A team of 30 doctors successfully removed the additional limbs, saved her organs and rebuilt her pelvis, Dr. Sharan Patil told CBS News Wednesday.
"Beyond our expectations, the reconstruction worked wonderfully," Patil said.
The girl, named Lakshmi after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, had been revered in her rural town in the northern state of Bahir as a reincarnated goddess.
The $200,000 surgery, never before performed in India, was paid for by the hospital's foundation.
-PATRICIO CHILE
