First Reported Case In The World: 7-Year-Old Girl Has Six Organs Removed For Tumor Surgery

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 21:35 in Health & Medicine

A 7-year-old girl from Long Island, NY, is on her way home a little more than four weeks after receiving a historic surgery that involved the removal and partial re-implantation of six organs in order to resect an abdominal tumor that otherwise would be inoperable.

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