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Thursday, May 23, 2013

World's first life-saving face transplant

 

Polish doctors have carried out the world's first life-saving face transplant, weeks after a 33-year-old man was disfigured by a machine in a workplace accident.

It is Poland's first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient's life," Anna Uryga, spokeswoman for the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in the southern city of Gliwice, said

The man, an employee at a stonemason's workshop and only identified as Grzegorz, was severely maimed on April 23, 2013 when a machine used to cut stone ripped out a large chunk of his face.
An attempt to reattach it failed - though it saved the man's vision and and a part of his face - and because of the breadth and depth of the lesions "his life was on the line", Ms Uryga said

 

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