Egyptian Doctors Seek International Help to Separate Siamese Twins

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Egyptian Doctors Seek International Help to Separate Siamese Twins

Egyptian doctors are seeking international medical help to separate Siamese twins joined at the head.

Egyptian doctors are seeking international medical help to separate Siamese twins joined at the head.

Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed are six months old and share a small part of their brain, according to Dr. Nasser Abdel Al, the head of the neonatal surgical intensive care unit at Abu el-Reesh hospital, Cairo.

They were born by Caesarean section to a laborer and his wife in the southern Egyptian town of Qus.

"They are joined at the skull and at the brain, and this constitutes the difficulty and peculiarity of the condition," Abdel Al told Associated Press Television News Sunday.

"We are hoping, by international cooperation and by international consultation, to reach the proper date and proper procedure and the proper place where they are going to be separated." Abdel Al said.

Earlier this year, a team of doctors in Singapore separated two Siamese twin girls from Nepal who had been joined at the head in a landmark 100-hour operation.

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