article_snippet: A pair of conjoined baby boys are expected to make a full recovery after being successfully separated in a nine-hour operation in Saudi Arabia.
article_snippet: Abdullah and Abdulrahman, pictured before surgery, were successfully separated in a nine-hour operation .
article_snippet: During preliminary tests, A team of surgeons, led by the country's former Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah discovered that Both twins (pictured, one of the boys after separation) shared organs, including the intestines.
article_snippet: A hospital spokesman said the multi-disciplinary medical team separated A pair of conjoined baby boys after a nine-hour surgery carried out in nine stages at the weekend.
article_snippet: When Both twins (pictured, one of the boys after separation) were separated Both twins (pictured, one of the boys after separation) were then divided into two teams to reconstruct Both twins (pictured, one of the boys after separation).'
article_snippet: Both twins (pictured, one of the boys after separation) shared organs, including the intestines, and pelvic bones.
article_snippet: This separation is the 35th performed on Siamese twins in the kingdom since 1990 on cases from more than 18 countries, including the Sudan, Yemen, Egypt, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Morocco and Iraq.
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia has a team of top surgeons in the separation of conjoined twins - with 30 successful cases 30 over the past two decades.
article_snippet: Last week, ten-month-old conjoined baby girls, from Texas, survived a world-first operation to separate ten-month-old conjoined baby girls, from Texas.
article_snippet: Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata shared the same chest wall, lungs, pericardial sac (the lining of the heart), diaphragm, liver, intestines, colon and pelvis.
article_snippet: A team of more than 26 clinicians, including 12 surgeons, six anesthesiologists and eight surgical nurses at the hospital operated to separate ten-month-old conjoined baby girls, from Texas.
article_snippet: urinary tract surgery was the first time twins conjoined at the chest and abdomen in this way had been successfully separated.
article_snippet: The ten-month-old girls twins, pictured before urinary tract surgery, were connected at the chest and abdomen and shared several vital organs including the liver, lungs and intestines .
article_snippet: Mother Elysse Mata, pictured with one of Mother Elysse Mata daughters in recovery, gives the thumbs up after Mother Elysse Mata conjoined twins were successfully separated .