| Parasitic twin, also known as craniopagus parasiticus, are formed the same way as conjoined twins during the early stages of pregnancy. |
| Sudan-born Rital and Ritag Gaboura were craniopagus twins, meaning they were born joined at the head. |
| The first successful operation I could find on craniopagus twins was 1952, where both twins survived. |
| Goodrich knows from experience how unpredictable and potentially dangerous any separation of craniopagus twins is likely to be. |
| Manar was born with a rare condition known as craniopagus parasiticus, which occurs when an embryo begins to split into identical twins but fails to complete the process. |
| In his successful separation of occipital craniopagus twins in 1987, Carson used a radical approach in which the twins' body temperatures were lowered to the point of circulatory arrest. |
