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First Successful Penis Transplant Raises Questions around South African Circumcision Ceremonies

Medicine & Technology Mar 14, 2015

While a South African patient’s identity is being protected for ethical reasons, according to Tygerberg Hospital, news of his successful procedure and sexual history are making headlines nonetheless. Fully recovered from a nine-hour operation that occurred on Dec. 11, 2014, the young man whose name is not being disclosed at this time, marks a great achievement in that doctors were the first to successfully complete a penile transplant operation in his case.

penis transplantation

First Successful Penis Transplant Raises Questions around South African Circumcision Ceremonies

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