History of treatment of conjoined twins
1Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, University Children Hospital, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. kkobylarz@usdk.pl.
Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy
|May 27, 2014
Abstract:
This paper presents a history of the treatment of conjoined twins. The first mention of this malformation comes from the Neolithic period. Conjoined twins were depicted in mythologies of ancient peoples. The present paper focuses on the theories of formation of Siamese twins and attempts at their separation. Moreover, the history of treatment of conjoined twins in Poland is described.
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