Expansion and division of conjoined twins

Hilfiker, Mary L.; Hart, Margaret L. I.; Holmes, Ralph E.; Cooper, Melissa; Kriett, Jolene M.; Collins, David L.; Allshouse, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3468(98)90215-9

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“…This lends itself well to tissue expander coverage. As early as 1987, we showed the utility of tissue expanders in increasing the amount of skin coverage available for separating thoracopagus twins; several groups have since built on their approach [9][10][11].…”

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Use of tissue expanders in the repair of complex abdominal wall defects

Clifton

Heiss

Keating

et al. 2011

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

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Use of tissue expanders in the repair of complex abdominal wall defects

Clifton

Heiss

Keating

et al. 2011

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

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“…In several series and case reports, the preoperative assessment and planning with a multidisciplinary approach were emphasized [1,2,4,8,9]. The surgical care of these patients after separation exacts the same careful attention to anatomy.…”

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Acute abdominal pain in a separated conjoined twin

Klinkner

Beilman

2005

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

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“…Take omphalopagus twinning, involving fusion at the lower abdomen. Internal anatomy varies, but in one reported case there was fusion at the liver and pericardium with no major vascular fusion, making it intelligible to talk of a 'sharp line of demarcation' between the twins (Hilfiker et al 1998). In a case like this, substances circulating in one twin have no significant effects on the other-so, the activities of parts on the left and right do not significantly interact.…”

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Conjoined twinning & biological individuation

Boyle

2019

Philos Stud

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In dicephalus conjoined twinning, it appears that two heads share a body; in cephalopagus, it appears that two bodies share a head. How many human animals are present in these cases? One answer is that there are two in both cases-conjoined twins are precisely that, conjoined twins. Another is that the number of humans corresponds to the number of bodies-so there is one in dicephalus and two in cephalopagus. I show that both of these answers are incorrect. Prominent accounts of biological individuation, which treat the organism as an integrated whole, reveal that in these and other cases of conjoined twinning the 'twins' share a single human animal. This has a number of consequences for the debate about what we are. First, if animalism is true, individuals of our kind can be-and areprofoundly psychologically divided. Second, cephalopagus twinning does not divide animalism from its rivals, as has been claimed. Finally, animalists can reply to a vicious species of the 'too many thinkers' problem to which they are allegedly uniquely vulnerable.

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Expansion and division of conjoined twins

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Use of tissue expanders in the repair of complex abdominal wall defects

Use of tissue expanders in the repair of complex abdominal wall defects

Acute abdominal pain in a separated conjoined twin

Conjoined twinning & biological individuation

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