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Clinicians at the Claudius Regaud Institute and Toulouse University Hospital have given a patient a nose transplant with an implant grown on their own forearm.
With the patient having unsuccessfully undergone multiple nasal reconstruction surgeries to repair her nose, which she lost most of to cancer in 2013, she agreed to become the test subject for a new approach. This involved the patient having a 3D bioprinted nose grafted onto her forearm, where it was grown for two months before being removed, revascularized and successfully implanted onto her face.
A first for facial transplantation
The Claudius Regaud Institute and Toulouse…
