Successfully conducted the third surgery for a face transplant, according to surgeons from the National Institute of Oncology Problems of Egypt.

In Egypt, a person was transplanted to a five-year-old girl who is suffering from skin cancer. For the first time in world practice, a donor was used as a donor, provided by a living person - the mother of a young patient, doctors said..

The first successful transplant operation in history was conducted in France in 2005. Then a new appearance was acquired by a woman whose face was disfigured by dog ??bites. In 2006, in China, the face was transplanted to a hunter who suffered from a bear attack.

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