Two one-year-old twins, born together behind the head, were able to look at each other for the first time after undergoing a rare separation surgery in Israel. The operation, which lasted 12 hours at Soroka Medical Center in the city of Beersheba last week, took months of preparation and included scalp grafts for both girls, involving dozens of experts including foreigners.
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The twins are recovering well: “They breathe and eat on their own,” Eldad Silberstein, head of Soroka’s plastic surgery department, told Channel 12. This is the first time such an operation, conducted only 20 times in all. the world, is performed in Israel. Months before the surgery, inflatable silicone bags were inserted into their heads and periodically expanded to stretch the skin which was then used to close after the reconstruction of their respective skulls. “To our delight, everything went as we hoped,” said Mickey Gideon, Soroka’s chief neurosurgeon.
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A few months before the surgery, the little ones were inserted into inflatable silicone bags on the head which allowed to dilate the skin. The new epidermis was then used to close the heads following the reconstruction of the skulls. 3D technology was also used for the operation. Similar interventions had already been carried out about twenty times in the world, but it was the first time in Israel.
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