Lakshmi Tatma is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria district, Bihar, with four arms and four legs.

She was actually one of a pair of ischiopagus conjoined twins, one of which was headless because its head had atrophied and chest had not fully developed in the womb, causing the appearance of one child with four arms and four legs.

[1] At the time of being found by Sharan Patil, she had an infected pressure ulcer at the neck end of the parasitic twin and continuous fevers.

Lakshmi was the subject of a surgery carried out by Sharan Patil and 30 other physicians which included Chief anaesthetist Yohannan John at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka.

The steps of the operation were: Within a week of the surgery, doctors held a press conference showing Lakshmi being carried by her father.

Slight scoliosis was found but would have to be corrected by a minor operation; her mother was unwilling for her to have to wear a spinal brace throughout childhood.