The incredible X-ray of conjoined
twin girls Allison June and Amelia Lee Tucker shows how complicated a
surgery the team of doctors had in front of them when they went into the
seven-hour surgery.
The
girls were nine-months-old and joined at the chest when they went in,
today they made their public debut, showing how the operation went
flawlessly.
New York natives Allison June, Amelia Lee, and their parents were introduced at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. More pictures after the cut........
Pediatric surgeon Dr Holly Hedrick
says Allison is the smaller but tougher twin. Amelia is the larger twin
but she's still in intensive care for now.
Surgeons separated the Tucker girls during a seven-hour operation in November.
The infants had been joined at the
lower chest and abdomen. They shared a chest wall, diaphragm,
pericardium and liver but are expected to live 'full, healthy and independent lives'.
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