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Transplanting two hands: a surgical feat

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    Le 19h30
  • 29 July 2015
  • Wassim Raffoul
    • CHUV
    • Biologie et de médecine, UNIL
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An 8-year-old boy has undergone a double hand transplant. After a ten-hour operation, he became the youngest patient in the world to receive such a transplant.

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