Surgery begins on conjoined twin girls
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Doctors began the first in a series of high-risk surgeries Wednesday to separate 3-year-old twin girls joined at the head.
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins Children's Center began surgery on Saturday to separate year-old German twins who are joined at the head. The first incision was made at about 12:30 p.m., and the twins, Lea and Tabea Block, were doing well, the hospital said.
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A pair of conjoined infant girls who share a lower spine and intestines flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday for possible separation surgery financed by the Saudi crown prince, the twins' cousin said.
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Doctors took about an hour Tuesday to separate 7-month-old conjoined twins who were fused at the lower back.
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Surgery to separate German twins connected at the head resumed in Maryland Wednesday after complications affecting one of the girls halted an earlier operation, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Surgeons continued surgery Wednesday to separate year-old twin girls joined at the head, resuming the operation four days after halting it when the condition of one
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Conjoined twins from Zimbabwe will undergo tests in Toronto to see whether they can survive a life-saving operation to separate them, Canadian doctors said on Tuesday.
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Ten-month-old twins who were separated were being closely monitored by doctors for any signs of infection from the long and complicated surgery.
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US doctors hope to resume surgery to separate German conjoined twins within days after the procedure was halted because of complications with one of the girls.
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Miracle twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre are now healthy enough to leave the hospital where they were separated. The formerly conjoined twins, who were successfully separated in a delicate surgery last month
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Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros lay in side-by-side beds for the first time in their 10-month-old lives Thursday after doctors separated and rebuilt the twins&#039; bodies in a marathon surgery.
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CLEVELAND -- Surgeons trying to separate 3-year-old conjoined twins halted the operation because of swelling in the brain of the larger, stronger girl, but the doctors and parents said Thursday that they would try again.
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Surgery to separate year-old twin girls joined at the head resumed at 6 a.m. in Baltimore, four days after the operation had to be halted because the condition of one became unstable.
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Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what&#39;s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.
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BALTIMORE Sept. 16, 2004 - One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center said early Thursday.
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Doctors in Toronto say four-month-old joined twins from Zimbabwe are a little malnourished but are otherwise in stable condition. The Hospital for Sick Children believes the prognosis is &quot;very good&quot; for separation surgery.
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Conjoined twins separated during a 26-hour surgery were breathing on their own Saturday, a milestone just days after the operation.