article_snippet: A pair of conjoined twins born sharing a liver have been successfully separated in south west China after an eight-hour operation.
article_snippet: Last week, two ten-month-old conjoined baby girls from Texas survived a world-first operation to separate two ten-month-old conjoined baby girls from Texas.
article_snippet: A team of more than 26 clinicians, including 12 surgeons, six anesthesiologists and eight surgical nurses at the Texas Children's Hospital operated to separate two ten-month-old conjoined baby girls from Texas.
article_snippet: The 26-hour surgery was the first time twins conjoined at the chest and abdomen in this way had been successfully separated.
article_snippet: Earlier this week Earlier this week was also announced 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: A team of surgeons led by Saudi Arabia's former Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah completed the difficult procedure in Riyadh.
article_snippet: The twins, who were from the Republic of Yemen, were taken to Saudi Arabia to be operated on at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in the capital.
article_snippet: The separation was 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 over the past two decades.
article_snippet: Abdullah and Abdulrahman, pictured before surgery, were successfully separated earlier this week in a nine-hour operation in Saudi Arabia .
highlights_snippet: Conjoined baby girls were separated this week in an eight-hour operation in Kunming .
  