It took 17 hours of operation for Polish surgeons to carry out a graftrare multiple of throat and neck. A feat for such a rare and tedious operation. Surgeons at the Gliwice Oncology Center in southern Poland have indeed transplanted several organs at the same time onto a cancer patient, namely the larynx, trachea, pharynx, esophagus, thyroid , muscles and skin of the front neck.
The team behind this feat is delighted with the ease with which the events unfolded: we were “surprised at the speed with which [le patient] began to breathe and speak “told AFP Professor Adam Maciejewski, who piloted this multiple transplant. The surgeon is not at his first attempt. In 2013, he had a successful face transplant. in emergency on a Pole of 33 years.
Little is known about the patient in question. It is only a 37-year-old Pole who suffers from throat cancer. Michal (we do not know his last name) took advantage of his first words post-operation to thank “everyone for everything they have done”.
This multiple neck and throat transplant, by its complexity, is the third surgical intervention of its kind. “Two similar operations have taken place so far in the world, but this one was the most complex,” according to Polish surgeons. The world’s first transplant dates back to 1998 in the United States. A man, who lost his vocal cords in a motorcycle accident, had his larynx, thyroid and throat implanted.
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