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AFP: Turkey carries out world's first quadruple limb transplant

Turkey carries out world's first quadruple limb transplant

(AFP) – 8 hours ago

ANKARA — Turkish surgeons have performed the world's first-ever quadruple limb transplant at a university hospital in Ankara, the Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.

"In such a big organ transplant... more than 50 percent of the (patient's) body has changed," Professor Murat Tuncer, rector of Ankara's Hacettepe University, told Anatolia.

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