摘要
分离连体双胞胎有时候只是一项直接了当的手术而已；然而，在其它情况下却不可能进行。2003年，美国巴尔的摩约翰霍普金斯大学接手一个来自德国的案例，这是一个可想象到的最为复杂的案例之一：两个女婴头部发生联体，皮肤与骨骼都没有将二人的大脑分离开来。
Separating conjoined twins can be a straightforward operation in some cases; in others it can be impossible. The case that arr ved from Germany on the doorstep of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US in 2003 was one of the most complicated imaginable. Two baby girls were conjoined at the head with neither skin nor bone separating their brains.
