Surgeons are celebrating after successfully separating conjoined twins fused at the head. The twin girls, named Minal and ...

One of the longest operations to separate conjoined twins, who were fused at the cranium, took more than 100 hours. The earliest recorded attempt at surgical separation of conjoined twins dates ...

Between two and 5% of conjoined twin cases involve fused skulls or brains, based on estimates from CHOP and Gemini Untwined. Craniopagus twins rarely survive past age 10, and 78% die before their ...

The sisters are dicephalus conjoined twins, having born fused together at the torso. They have separate spinal cords, brains, hearts and other organs but share the rest located below their waist.

Scans showed the challenge facing surgeons - the twins were fused at the base of spine The operation Sanchia and Eman needed to divide their spinal cords, which were fused at the base, had never ...

Imagine discovering that a person carries a twin within themselves—a hidden, undeveloped sibling that shares space, blood ...