Surgeons Separate Conjoined Twin Girls
Four-month-old twin girls who were joined from their chests to their abdomens were successfully separated in a six-hour surgery with no complications, doctors at Children’s National Medical Center said.
Jade and Erin Buckles of Woodbridge, Va., were in critical but stable condition, according to a hospital statement. “After months of planning for many different scenarios, the separation went very smoothly,” lead surgeon Gary Hartman said in the statement.
The girls were born Feb. 26 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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