A set of conjoined twins are undergoing one of the riskiest separations surgeries ever performed.
Two-year-olds Eva and Erika Sandoval share a digestive system, a uterus, a liver, a bladder, and a third leg with a seven-toed foot.
On Tuesday at 7am, they were wheeled into the operating theater at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford for what was expected to be an 18-hour operation.
The surgery - involving 50 orthopedic, plastic, and urology surgeons - carries a 30 percent risk that one or both of them won't make it.
Source:
The Daily Trust News
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