A team of doctors work on Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros at the beginning of what is expected to be a 24-hour operation that will last until approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday. (Javier Manzano / LAT)
Two members of the 80-member surgical team confer. A model of the twins’ skeletons in the foreground shows how the two girls are joined at the hip bone, one of the many challenges facing the surgeons. (Javier Manzano / LAT)
Doctors hold the tiny legs of Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros as they make the initial incisions to separate the 10-month-old twins. (Javier Manzano / LAT)
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Federico Salinas, 36, left, and Sonia Fierros, 23, talk to reporters in the waiting room of the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. The operation began just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning. (Javier Manzano / LAT)
