London Surgeon Set to Carry Out First Full Face Transplant

Evening Standard - London › December 15, 2005

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BRITISH doctors are set to carry out the world's first full face transplant within months after being granted approval to choose a patient.

Professor Peter Butler, of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, and his team will now begin selecting a patient who is suitable to have a whole face transplant after an ethics committee gave approval.

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London Surgeon Set to Carry Out First Full Face Transplant

It comes two weeks after the Standard revealed a French team of sugeons had carried o...

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