but not all conjoined twins can be separated. Sometimes, where they're joined on their bodies makes it impossible, and they stay connected for life. Most conjoined twins need a lot of medical care ...

For the second time in three years, Chicago doctors were faced with a problem rare in medical history: what to do about Siamese twins joined together at the top of their heads. Deborah Marie and ...

Dr. Harold Voris and a surgical team at Mercy Hospital in Chicago successfully separated the Herrin twins, who were joined at the lower abdomen and shared critical blood vessels. Although one twin ...

Regardless of where they’re joined, the twins will be monochorionic monoamniotic, meaning that they’ll both share a single placenta and single amniotic sac. Depending on where the twins are ...

Then they were dumbfounded by the discovery that the twins were a monster joined abdominally by a tube more than a foot long. Finally the doctors were delighted: the twins lived after being cut apart.