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Monday, February 27, 2012

AFP: Turkey's quadruple limb transplant fails

Turkey's quadruple limb transplant fails

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

ANKARA — Turkish surgeons removed both arms and legs from a patient who underwent what was touted as the world's first quadruple limb transplant due to metabolic complications, the hospital said on Monday.

Fifty-two doctors from Ankara's Hacettepe University Hospital performed the transplant on Friday, attaching two arms and two legs to Sevket Cavdar.

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