The 2D X-ray is of relatively little help in guiding this 3D procedure.ĥ. The brains are completely individual and separate, but the brains shared blood vessels, which the surgical team had to separate. A traditional 2D X-ray of the Quiej-Alvarez twins' brains. Without rapid prototyping, say the doctors, the operation would have been much more difficult.Ĭopyright © 2002 CAD/CAM Publishing, Inc. Today, both girls are doing well, and the prognosis for both is excellent. Recently, a nonprofit organization called Healing the Children arranged for the girls to be flown to Los Angeles where a volunteer team of neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Mattel Childrens’ Hospital successfully separated them in a 22-hour-long operation. Over the past year, the girls have remained healthy and happy but they have been severely restricted by their condition.
Together, they weighed 4.4 pounds at birth and, despite their small size, were healthy in every way - except for being joined at the head. Aug- Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez were born on 24 July 2001 in a rural village in Guatemala. The conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, watercolor on ivory, circa 1835.ģ.
Abigail (Abby) and Brittany (Britty) Hensel, circa 2005.Ģ.
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