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Face transplant surgeon recounts procedure.(Clinical Rounds)
Publication: Skin & Allergy News Publication Date: 01-JUL-06 Author: Boschert, Sherry
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COPYRIGHT 2006 International Medical News Group
LAS VEGAS -- The world's first partial face transplant to a 38-year-old French woman in November 2005 began as collaboration among three old friends.
"We were three surgeons, perhaps three mavericks," who ultimately recruited a multidisciplinary team of 50 surgeons and other physicians from France and Belgium who worked on the transplant, Dr. Benoit G. Lengele recounted at an international symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
A previous case of a 2-year-old boy whose lower lip and chin had been bitten off by a dog propelled their interest in partial face transplant. Surgical repairs to the boy's face were a functional success but...
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