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BEIJING (AP) A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.
Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China's southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged.
The striking images of the implant with the nostril section facing diagonally upward on the left side of the man's forehead drew widespread publicity after they began to circulate in Chinese media this week. Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.
"We were just interested in helping the man and did not expect it would stir up this much attention," Guo said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press.
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)But for that detail, I'd want one for my own self.
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(56,912 posts)rrneck
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(56,912 posts)CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...completely elude the stem-cell hating citizens of JesusLand.
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(56,912 posts)reason.
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Stem cells are the minions of Satan.
progressoid
(49,987 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)The man needs a new nose - so using the man's own tissue, the doc 'grew' a replacement. He will then excise the new one and replace the old one.
Ingenious.
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(56,912 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)They obviously had to build it somewhere, but removing it is going to leave one hell of a scar...so why not build it somewhere that's normally covered with clothes?
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.
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(56,912 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)The part of the skin above his existing nose will still be attached to the graft, so when it's cut and rotated down to the usual place for a nose all those vessels will still be attached.
A skin graft can then be taken from another body area and placed where the replacement was grown.
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(56,912 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)This poor guy is going to have a big-ass scar on his forehead for the rest of his life that he wouldn't have had if they'd have built his new nose on his thigh or his upper arm.
Gidney N Cloyd
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(56,912 posts)nolabear
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(56,912 posts)signed
George Takei
hibbing
(10,097 posts)I'm glad it is going to be for something good, but that is one screwed up picture, why did I look, why could I not stop myself from looking?
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(56,912 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)than the forehead.
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(56,912 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)the Aqualung album. He could sing and play the flute with his nose at the same time.