Stellenbosch University Penile Transplant

Publisher:
Stellenbosch University
Publication Date:
13 March 2015
Tags:
South Africa, Health and Medicine

Prof André van der Merwe announces that surgeons at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences performed the first successful penis transplant in the world. The marathon nine-hour operation was performed on 11 December 2014 at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

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