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Multi-connected sum decomposition of $n$-manifolds

I don't have a reference, but I think it's not too hard to see that $M_1 \#_k M_2 \approx M_1 \# X_k \# M_2$, where $X_k = (S^1 \times S^{n-1})^{\# (k-1)}$. (Connected sum depends on choices of embed …
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