Face of the future  

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Coombes, Rebecca

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 336 no. 7634 (Jan. 2008), page 18.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The world’s first full facial transplant could finally happen in the United Kingdom this year. Peter Butler, leader of the surgical team at the Royal Free Hospital in north London preparing to carry out the controversial procedure, is uncharacteristically hesitant about details. One reason is his heightened sensitivity about the British media. The press have been on red alert over Butler’s activities ever since a French team performed the first partial facial transplant in November 2005. About 31 patients have approached Butler’s team seeking a facial transplantation. The details of some of them were leaked to the press, leading to interviews with patients’ families. Journalists will be especially keen to uncover the identity of whoever becomes the first eventual donor, Butler believes. Butler has been working on how to do a facial transplant for 15 years. In fact, one of the lead surgeons on the French team credits him with . . .

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