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January 21, 2012 09:55 GMT
Turkish hospital performs limb, face transplants
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- The state-run news agency says a hospital in southern Turkey is performing the world's first triple limb transplant.
The Anadolu news agency says a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, are attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man who lost his limbs at age 11 when he was electrocuted.
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