Brigham doctors set sights on leg transplants

Boston surgeons who have successfully transplanted donor faces and hands onto badly disfigured patients are now evaluating several amputees for leg transplants, a highly experimental operation believed to have been done just twice around the world, and never in the United States. Matthew Carty, HMS assistant professor of surgery, and Bohdan Pomahac, HMS associate professor of surgery, both of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.

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