What Are Siamese Twins?

Conjoined twins point out that two (or more) fetuses were not separated during birth, and they usually only occur on fertilized eggs of identical twins. The medical profession believes that fertilized eggs divide on the 12th to 14th days and cause incomplete division. The chance of forming a conjoined baby is about one in 200,000.

Siamese twins

Siamese twins indicate that two (or more) fetuses were not separated during birth and generally occur only in

Siamese babies are very rare, with a birth probability of only one in 200,000, and their probability of smooth and healthy growth in the infant stage is even lower, only one in 10 million. Among them, Siamese

In the West, conjoined twins date back to 945 [source request]

At 08:30 on September 10, 1979, the National Taiwan University Hospital started a split operation of male three-legged ischial conjoined twins Zhang Zhongren and Zhang Zhongyi. CCTV set up a temporary anchor station in the operating room, one anchor and one commentator, to report the actual operation for 12 hours. In the end, the segmentation was successful, and Zhang Zhongren and Zhang Zhongyi became the world's first male tri-legged ischemic twin brothers.

It is worth noting that in 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson (MD) was the world's first pediatric neurosurgeon who successfully separated the back-brained conjoined infants and both survived.

On May 27, 2000, a surgeon in Sicily, Italy performed a split operation on a pair of 3-month-old Peruvian conjoined baby girls.

Linked together, sharing a heart and liver, unfortunately the operation failed, and soon died.

On August 6, 2002, Maria Teresa and Maria Hersus sisters of the Guatemalan conjoined baby girl were separated at the Martel Children's Hospital in the United States, with their heads connected and their faces facing away. The operation was successful.

On June 28, 2003, at the Tzu Chi Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan, she successfully completed a segmentation operation for a pair of [source request] females Lea and Rachel from the abdomen in the poor country of the Philippines.

On July 6, 2003, Raffles Hospital of Singapore performed split surgery on Iranian conjoined twins Laden and Lale. After the two sisters' heads were completely separated, they died on July 9 due to massive bleeding.

On October 9, 2003, the Children's Hospital of Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China successfully separated conjoined twins for the first time, and it was the first conjoined infant separation in Shenzhen.

On November 6, 2007, the Presh Hospital in Bangalore, South India, performed a 27-hour operation on a two-year-old baby girl Lakshmi Tatma, who successfully separated the dead lower body.

On November 26, 2008, the Children's Hospital of Shenzhen City, China, successfully separated the conjoined baby girl Pang Shuwen and Pang Shuting. The navel was connected to the abdominal cavity and was successfully separated.