French hospital performs face, hand transplants at the same time

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

PARIS -- Dozens of doctors working in teams more than 30 hours performed the first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant over the weekend, Paris' Public Hospital authority said Monday.

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