Doctors optimistic after separating conjoined twins

AFTER 26 hours in the operating room, pediatric neurosurgeons successfully separated two-year-old Egyptian twins joined at the top of their heads yesterday.

Doctors at Children's Medical Center Dallas spent the night separating the intricate connection of blood vessels running between the brains of Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim considered the riskiest part of the operation.

They were separated at 11:17am, hospital officials announced later in a prepared statement.