Doctors separate 1-year-old conjoined twins for first time in Israel
By DW
09 September 2021 |
8:46 am
Israeli doctors successfully separate one-year-old twins conjoined at the head at the Beersheba Soroka Medical Center, which is considered the first surgery of this kind in Israel.
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