Johns Hopkins Establishing Protocol to Perform Facial Transplantation
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 09:01
in Health & Medicine
Johns Hopkins surgeons have established a facial transplantation team and are in the process of obtaining approval from the University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) of their protocol to perform the complicated procedure.
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