A rare case involving twins joined at the chest, abdomen, and pelvis led to an urgent multinational medical response and a high-risk surgery that saved one child while the other could not survive ...

"We knew that if we didn't separate them, both would die,” said Dr. Gordon Thomas, a pediatric transplant surgeon ...

Conjoined twins arise from aberrant early embryonic events in monozygotic pregnancies, resulting in partial incomplete separation or secondary union of two embryonic discs. Conjunction sites—cranial, ...

Abby Hensel and Brittany Hensel aren't keeping this information close to their chest. Although the 34-year-old sisters—among the oldest dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins—share blood circulation, ...

NMAH copy 39088010925188 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. "One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the ...

One family is celebrating a medical miracle. Twins Ally and El Albalushi were born as conjoined twins joined at the pelvis, but after a successful surgery at Seattle Children’s in February when they ...

Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 82. SCDIRB copy 39088019621945 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection. SCDIRB copy ...