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A Rare Case of Dystocia Due to Monocephalus Diprosopus Monster in a Cow


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1 Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGCN, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India
 

A monster is an abnormally formed fetus with congenital anomaly. Fetal monsters are common cause of dystocia in bovines (Shukla et al. 2007). The conjoined twin a rare disorder occurring in monozygotic twin pregnancies (Roberts 2004). Duplication and fusion of varying degree is seen in the conjoined monsters twins but anterior duplication is more common in swine and ruminants (Arthur et al. 2001). Anterior duplication of head may be either monocephalus or dicephalus. Monocephalus monster are having partial duplication of frontal region, nose and mouth are called diprosopus or double face. Monocephalus Diprosopus monsters have single head with two faces. (Roberts 2004). Such types of monsters most of the time cause dystocia and has to be removed by laparohysterotomy (Sharma et al. 2010, Gupta et al. 2011).

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Monocephalus Diprosopus Monster, Cow, Congenital Anomaly.
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Authors

Pravesh Kumar
Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGCN, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India
Amit Sharma
Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGCN, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India
Madhumeet Singh
Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGCN, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India
Akshay Sharma
Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGCN, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India

Abstract


A monster is an abnormally formed fetus with congenital anomaly. Fetal monsters are common cause of dystocia in bovines (Shukla et al. 2007). The conjoined twin a rare disorder occurring in monozygotic twin pregnancies (Roberts 2004). Duplication and fusion of varying degree is seen in the conjoined monsters twins but anterior duplication is more common in swine and ruminants (Arthur et al. 2001). Anterior duplication of head may be either monocephalus or dicephalus. Monocephalus monster are having partial duplication of frontal region, nose and mouth are called diprosopus or double face. Monocephalus Diprosopus monsters have single head with two faces. (Roberts 2004). Such types of monsters most of the time cause dystocia and has to be removed by laparohysterotomy (Sharma et al. 2010, Gupta et al. 2011).

Keywords


Monocephalus Diprosopus Monster, Cow, Congenital Anomaly.

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