Conjoined baby twins successfully separated in Shanghai

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SHANGHAI (AFP) — Two-month-old Chinese twins who were born conjoined at the chest were successfully separated in Shanghai's Xinhua Hospital after a four-and-a-half hour operation, surgeons said.

"Surgery was successful and the conditions of the sisters are stable now," head surgeon Shi Chengren told AFP.

Although the girls from China's northern province of Shanxi are far from being given a medical all-clear, their chances of survival are good, made easier by the fact that they only shared tissue in their hearts and liver.

"We expect the girls will live like any other healthy people, since there were two separate interior systems in the shared liver," Jin Huiming, vice director of the hospital's pediatric department, was quoted as saying by the Shanghai...