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Chinese Surgeons Repair Tongue Using Skin Flap
Chinese surgeons in Hebei Province carried out a transplant operation successfully to restore the tongue of a cancer patient using a skin flap taken from her forearm recently.
Liu, a woman who had suffered from late carcinoma of tongue (tongue cancer) for years, has a new tongue and can speak clearly after the operation.
The operation, the first of its kind in the province, was done by doctors from the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang,capital of Hebei.
Under general anesthesia, the surgeons first cut off the affected part, consisting of three-quaters of the patient's tongue,then they took a six-by-five cm skin flap from the patient's left forearm to repair the tongue.
Many cases of success in replanting organs like fingers, ears and tongues for patients were reported this year in China. Early this February a female patient's tongue was repaired in central China Hunan province, by using a skin flap taken from her stomach.
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