‘Little Marias’ will need plastic surgery

Deena Beasley, Los Angeles

The one-year-old twins, Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, remained in a critical condition with stable vital signs on Tuesday at Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California at Los Angeles a week after a gruelling 22-hour operation to divide them.

The top of each twin's head is missing a section of skull about the size of an adult hand, Henry Kawamoto, surgical director of UCLA's cranio-facial clinic, said.