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Article: Surgeons separate conjoined twins after 16-hour operation
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2001
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SURGEONS HAVE successfully separated a pair of conjoined twins
fused at the base of the spine - the first time such a difficult
operation has been performed in Britain.
The baby girls are doing well and doctors expect them to lead
normal lives.
Eman and Sanchia Mowatt were delivered by Caesarean section in
September at the City Hospital in Birmingham and then transferred to
the nearby Children's Hospital for further surgery to prepare them
for separation. Doctors, led by Professor Lewis Spitz of the Great
Ormond Street Hospital in London, operated for 16 hours on Monday.
Details of the complex procedure were released yesterday.
Tony Hockley, the paediatric neurosurgeon who helped to ...