THE CONJOINED TWINS BORN IN VALDARNO AL TERRAIO

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. 

Key words: Ischiopagus - Conjoined Twins - History of Malformations.