Cancer Patient Gets a New Tongue
From Times Wire Reports
Doctors have successfully transplanted a human tongue, Vienna’s General Hospital announced. An unidentified 42-year-old man suffering from a malignant tumor affecting his tongue and jaw underwent a 14-hour operation in which doctors removed the tumor and attached the new tongue, hospital spokeswoman Karin Fehringer said.
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