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Dr. Bohdan Pomahac (center) worked with a resident, Aaron Skolnik, and nurse practitioner Shannah Young on Thursday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Brigham doctors will do rare face transplants

By Liz Kowalczyk
Globe Staff / July 29, 2007

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Brigham and Women's Hospital has given a surgical team permission to perform partial face transplants on certain disfigured patients, making it the second US hospital that has gone public with plans to do this rare and hotly debated procedure. (Full article: 1495 words)

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