Transplanted windpipe renews Belgian woman's life

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:07 in Health & Medicine

A Belgian woman has a working windpipe after surgeons implanted the trachea from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new blood vessels before being transplanted into her throat.

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