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  • Maria Tapia, left, has her scar checked by Dr. David Lanning during a one-year check up at VCU Medical center in Richmond on Oct. 31, 2012. Her sister, Teresa Tapia is on the right. The twin girls who were born attached and underwent complicated surgical procedures to separate them at Virginia Commonwealth University's Children's Hospital have returned to Richmond a year later for a checkup. The girls were born joined at the lower chest and abdomen. A team led by Lanning divided the twins' liver, pancreas and other shared organ systems and reconstructed their abdominal walls. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)

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  • Maria, left, and Teresa Tapia sit together during a Halloween party at World Pediatric Project in Richmond, Va. on Oct. 31, 2012. The twin girls who were born attached and underwent complicated surgical procedures to separate them at Virginia Commonwealth University's Children's Hospital have returned to Richmond a year later for a checkup. The girls were born joined at the lower chest and abdomen. A team led by Lanning divided the twins' liver, pancreas and other shared organ systems and reconstructed their abdominal walls. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)

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November 8, 2012

Once-conjoined twins to mark surgery a year later

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two little girls from the Dominican Republic who underwent 20 hours of surgery to separate them are celebrating one year since undergoing the procedure in Richmond.

Twins Maria and Teresa Tapia are due back Thursday at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU for a reception in their honor. The girls and their mother, Lisandra Sanatis, will be welcomed by the children's care team and the surgeon-in-chief, Dr. David Lanning.

The girls were born joined at the lower chest and abdomen. Lanning and his team divided the twins' liver, pancreas and other shared organ systems and reconstructed their abdominal walls.

Last week the 2½-year-old girls attended a Halloween party at the Henrico County headquarters of the World Pediatric Project, a nonprofit surgical-care provider for children in Central America and the Caribbean.

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