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Nature 420, 449 (5 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420449a
Surgeons struggle with ethical nightmare of face transplants
Natasha McDowell
Transplant experts are this week coming to terms with claims by a top London surgeon that face transplants could soon move from the realm of Hollywood fantasy into actual clinical practice.The technology needed to perform a face transplant could be ready within six months, Peter Butler of the Royal Free Hospital told the winter meeting of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in London on 27 November.
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