Members of the Waikato Hospital medical team who were involved in the successful separation of Siamese twin girls at the hospital on Friday. They are (from left), Dr John Moodie, consultant anaesthetist, Mr Stuart Brown, and Mr Graeme Campbell, surgeons, and Dr Greg Spark, consultant anaesthetist Both babies had their own separate livers and ribs but both the livers and two of the ribs were partially joined and had to be divided. The twins were joined “top-to-tail at the stomach, a condition known medically as omphalopagus.
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86Members of the Waikato Hospital medical team who were involved in the successful separation of Siamese twin girls at the hospital on Friday. They are (from left), Dr John Moodie, consultant anaesthetist, Mr Stuart Brown, and Mr Graeme Campbell, surgeons, and Dr Greg Spark, consultant anaesthetist Both babies had their own separate livers and ribs but both the livers and two of the ribs were partially joined and had to be divided. The twins were joined “top-to-tail at the stomach, a condition known medically as omphalopagus. Press, 22 September 1987, Page 4
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