DALLAS (Reuters) - The formerly conjoined Egyptian twin boys were on Thursday to leave the hospital where they were separated at the crown of their skulls a month ago, after making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery.

Dr. James Thomas, director of critical care at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, where two-year-old Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim were separated on Oct. 12, told a news conference the boys will be moved to nearby Medical City Dallas where doctors will work to repair the parts of their skulls under which there lies no bone.

"Considering the tremendous odds they faced preoperatively, these boys have done remarkably well. So many things that could have gone awry, didn't," Thomas said.

A month ago, the boys underwent 34 hours of separation surgery -- for which doctors had prepared for a year. In the operation, a team of five neurosurgeons separated brain material they shared as well as the shared circulatory systems that feed blood to their brains.

The boys can now sit upright as they blow kisses, bang on tambourines and give high-fives to doctors and nurses. They have stayed in separate rooms but come together for play time.

In an emotional press conference, the boys' father Ibrahim Mohamed said through an interpreter that the successful surgery was "a miracle."

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