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Three female cases of conjoined thoracopagus twins are reported. All of these cases had conjoined hearts with complicated cardiovascular anomalies, fused livers, intestinal conjunctions and some other anomalies. Case 1 and 2 died of pneumothorax and gastric perforation respectively within three days after birth. The third case also died of cardiac insufficiency at the age of 57 days. Autopsies of these cases revealed that they could not had been separated because of shared common hearts. The embryology, incidence, diagnosis and treatment of thoracopagus twins were discussed.
