MARATHON operations to separate conjoined twins are fraught with danger, as
the doctors who operated on Jodie and Mary in Manchester this week know only too
well. But it might be possible to make future operations safer by creating a
complex model of the patients’ internal organs and blood vessels. At least,
that’s the view of a surgeon whose team used such a technique to help them
separate conjoined twins in Brisbane last month.
The 7-month-old twins, Tay-Lah and Monique Armstrong, were joined upside
down, at the rear of their heads over a circumference of about 25 centimetres.
Monique’s cerebellum…
