Chatterjee S K, Chakravarti A K, Deb Maulik T K, De Majumdar N, Sen M K
Ramakrishna Mission Sevapratisthan, Calcutta, India.
J Pediatr Surg. 1988 Jan;23(1 Pt 2):73-5. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3468(88)80545-1.
A pair of ischiopagus tetrapus twins were successfully separated in Calcutta in 1986. The separation was staged. The gastrointestinal tracts were separated at a preliminary operation, and definitive separation carried out 3 months later. Staging permitted us to perform the final separation on healthier babies with the exclusion of the intestinal contents from the wounds and with reduced operating time.