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FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION Volume 354:889-894 March 2, 2006 Number 9 Next

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In her office at the Cleveland Clinic, plastic surgeon Maria Siemionow has been studying the photographs and perusing the medical records of severely disfigured people, looking for the ideal candidate to undergo what could be the world's first transplantation of an entire face.

Last October, Siemionow and her team became the first to receive approval from the institutional review board (IRB) of a U.S. hospital to proceed with plans to perform the experimental surgery. In London, plastic surgeon Peter Butler has also obtained permission from the Royal Free Hospital's research ethics committee to begin evaluating patients for the procedure. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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