First full face transplant for US construction worker

Name: First full face transplant for US construction worker
Uploaded: 2011-03-21T21:37:33.000Z
Description: A construction worker, badly disfigured in a power line accident in 2008, has received the first full face transplant ever conducted in the United States

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A construction worker, badly disfigured in a power line accident in 2008, has received the first full face transplant ever conducted in the United States.

More than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff performed the operation in a hospital in Boston.

Neil Bowdler reports.

Health

21 March 2011