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Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm
An anonymous reader writes "In 2008, Sherrie Walters, now 42 years old, discovered that she had rapidly spreading basal cell cancer in her ear. The disease is a type of skin cancer. The doctors pursued an aggressive treatment to combat the destructive disease, removing her ear, part of her skull, and her left ear canal. Though Walters was left without an ear, she was still able to hear with the help of a special hearing aid. A few months ago, doctors from the renowned Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore decided to try a new procedure on Walters. Using cartilage from her rib, the doctors stitched a new ear to match her right one. Then their creation was implanted under the skin of her forearm, where the ear grew for months. ...Doctors attached the ear and blood vessels surgically. Another surgery, conducted this week, gave the ear shape and detail. Dr. Patrick Byrne, a revered plastic and reconstructive surgeon, says that after the swelling goes down and the ear heals, Walters will have an ear that both looks and functions normally."
to "don't put anything other than your elbow in your ear".
renowned Johns Hopkins
a revered reconstructive and plastic surgeon.
I hope it's just an oversight by the poster rather than the revered doctor that has left the "ear" implanted under the skin of her forearm.
Nothing because of Obamacare so basically it came out of Mitt Romney's pocket.
Can't you read? They used her rib and arm, so it certainly didn't cost an arm and a leg ...
Somehow, I'm completely ok with this.
Congrats, Sherrie.
But if I was you, I'd stay away from Mike Tyson.
Apparently, she was all ears after the doctors told her that they could fix her.
Ezekiel 23:20
Awesome times would be when they can grow a vagina on my hand.
No, the ultimate impressive achievement would be to grow the new ear in the middle of the forehead. That way it would be the final front-ear.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!