VIRTUAL TWINS
Conjoined Brazilian twins Bernardo and Arthur Lima, aged nearly four, became the oldest craniopagus, or fused brain, twins to be successfully separated. While one in 60,000 births produces conjoined twins, only five per cent of those are craniopagus. They were also the first conjoined twins to be separated using virtual reality (VR) and their operation was one of the most complex separations ever attempted. It was masterminded by surgeon Noor Ul Owase.
