Hungarian doctors perform operation on Siamese twins in Bangladesh

A team of Hungarian doctors successfully performed in Bangladesh one in a series of operations aimed at separating a pair of Siamese twins conjoined at their skulls and brains, the daily Magyar Idok said on Tuesday. The doctors succeeded at the weekend in separating the veins in the brains of the two-year-old patients, the paper quoted neurological surgeon Andras Csokay as saying. Complicated operations in which the skulls and the brains are to be separated still lie ahead, he added. The paper reported that the young patients are doing well. But such operations carry huge risk: on average both patients die in nearly 50 percent of separation procedures.