conjoined twins

They hold the record for the oldest conjoined twins in the world.

The death rate from surgery to separate conjoined twins is said to be about 50 percent.

Perhaps providing some comfort to the parents was the hospital's history with conjoined twins.

It has been a major obstacle in operations on other conjoined twins.

Now they turn to the world of conjoined twins.

On another note, I found the references to conjoined twins intriguing.

Lisa: I believe they prefer to be called "conjoined twins."

Smith and Weston are two conjoined twins, joined by the head.

They were the first set of conjoined twins to be separated to share a kidney.

For unknown reasons, about three-quarters of conjoined twins are female.

Medicine-The conjoined twins do well after their first night apart.

Only a few hundred pairs of conjoined twins are born each year worldwide.

There are instances of conjoined twins who live satisfying, though unusual, lives.

All but 25 percent of conjoined twins are either stillborn or die soon after birth.

In rare cases, the use of griseofulvin has been associated with conjoined twins.

At the moment of this crisis, however, the two engines were, like conjoined twins, mutually vulnerable.

Separation of conjoined twins, a procedure that allows them to live independently.

Surgery has also been conducted to separate conjoined twins.

They are the earliest set of conjoined twins whose names are known.

"They can put me in between cloned sheep and conjoined twins.

Sometimes, he said, conjoined twins have a "steal phenomenon," in which one takes more than his share of the common circulation.

It was the first time the procedure was attempted in conjoined twins.

The overall survival rate for conjoined twins is approximately 25%.

Doctors around the country have been following the Aguirre case, which could help change how surgeons separate conjoined twins.