Turkey claims first 3-limb transplant
ANKARA, turkey — A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and a leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.
At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto a 19-year-old man. It was Turkey's first face transplant.
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