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Discusses how Singapore-based surgeons Chumpon Chan and Keith Goh were able to separate siamese twins from Nepal. Financial assistance extended to the family of the Siamese twins; Difficulties encountered during the operation; Use of the VizDExter program; Use of magnetic resonance imaging; Other surgeons from the Singapore General Hospital who assisted in the operation. INSET: A MODEL PROCESS..

Describes the efforts of doctors in a Singapore hospital to separate twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head at birth. How the surgery was never tried before in adults; Consideration of how the sisters died as a result of uncontrollable bleeding; Courageousness of the twins.

Focuses on two bioethical issues related to the case of Laleh and Ladan Bijani, the Iranian conjoined twins who died in a Singapore hospital after a surgery aimed at separating them. Patient autonomy; Professional medical judgment.

Focuses on the use of three-dimensional imaging technology by a surgical team at Singapore General Hospital to separate Siamese twins, Ganga and Jamuna of Salyan, Nepal. View of the girls' brains; Planning of operation by the neurosurgeons; Assistance of United States-based consultant Benjamin Carson in the procedure.

Ladan and Laleh Bijani's greatest wish was to see each other face to face. For the 29-year-old twins from Iran, joined at the side of the head, the desire to live separate lives was so strong they risked surgery halfway around the world, with some of the best doctors available but with only a 50 per cent chance of survival. After 52 hours on the operating table, the twins died of blood loss in Singapore's Raffles Hospital. Neurosurgeon Keith Goh and a team of 28 doctors and 100 support staff successfully teased the sisters' brains apart, but were undermined by unexpectedly complex blood flow patterns.

Reports on the successful separation of Nepalese twins joined at the head by a team of Singaporean surgeons and specialists.