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Staging the separation of ischiopagus twins
S K Chatterjee1, A K Chakravarti, T K Deb Maulik
1Ramakrishna Mission Sevapratisthan, Calcutta, India.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A pair of ischiopagus tetrapus twins were successfully separated in Calcutta in 1986. The separation was staged. The gastrointestinal tracts were separated at a preliminary operation, and definitive separation carried out 3 months later. Staging permitted us to perform the final separation on healthier babies with the exclusion of the intestinal contents from the wounds and with reduced operating time.