However, after months of testing at the Raffles Hospital in Singapore, which included CT scans, MRI and angiography, doctors determined that surgery was feasible because they have anatomically separate brains. In the marathon operation, Goh is supported by the plastic surgeon Walter Tan, 12 other surgeons, eight anesthetists and four radiologists, as well as hundreds of support professionals from various countries and hospitals. “We have assembled a team of international experts that the operation has the best chance of success,” as explained by the director of Raffles Hospital, Loo Choon Yong.
Among the specialists is also the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (USA). Carson successfully separated two Siamese boys joined at the head in 1987 and two girls aged six months in 1997.
In spite of fear and nervousness, minutes before being introduced into the operating room, the twins were in good spirits and joked with his friends, according to hospital Singapore.