Successful face, arm transplants signal wider potential

Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 06:14 in Health & Medicine

Doctors express hope that the encouraging results from such surgeries could benefit patients worldwide. Other types of potential CTAs include scalp and ear procedures. Several types of so-called composite tissue allotransplantation (or CTA) are now being done or are considered good candidates to be done in the future.

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