PHOENIX - Doctors at Phoenix Children's Hospital successfully separated conjoined twins after more than 12 hours of surgery Thursday night but more operations loomed.
Alex and Angel Mendoza were born last summer and were joined from just below their sternums all the way down through their pelvises.
Surgery set for Thursday for conjoined twins
A team of more than 20 doctors and nurses worked to give the boys separate bodies and the two were stable throughout the surgery, hospital officials said.
Surgery was expected to continue into early Friday as doctors did reconstruction procedures to close each baby's body.
Ashley Frank of Kingman gave birth in mid-August to the twins at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix.
The babies were delivered two months early after doctors saw there wasn't enough amniotic fluid supporting them.
