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Limb transplantation has long been of interest to surgeons. The legend of the pysician twins Saint Cosmos and Saint Damian, who transplanted a whole leg in a.d. 348, has come down to us from antiquity. The first successful transplantation of an allograft of a forearm and hand from a cadaver was performed in Lyons, France, in 1998.¹ The second successful forearm-and-hand transplantation took place in 1999 in Louisville, Kentucky. In this issue of the Journal, Jones et al. report on the status of the transplant recipient after one year of follow-up.²

The technical demands of this procedure are now well . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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