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Man rejects first penis transplant
Guardian ^
| September 18, 2006
| Ian Sample, science correspondent
Posted on 09/17/2006 10:33:58 PM PDT by tlb
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.
Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.
Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.
"Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face," he wrote in the journal. "Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient's wife and raised many questions."
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 10cmabout4inches; detachablepenis; erectivesurgery; frankenfurter; hatewhenthathappens; headedforthebackroom; kingmissile; oragany; organized; penalized; penistransplant; raisedmanyquestions; williamhung
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The ultimate good news/bad news scenerio. The woman must have been very conflicted regarding the stiff's organ.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:33:59 PM PDT
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tlb
To: tlb
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:35:48 PM PDT
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LukeL
To: tlb
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:36:14 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: tlb
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:37:14 PM PDT
by
Clinging Bitterly
(Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
To: tlb
The American people rejected penis transplants at the past two elections!!!
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:38:40 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: tlb
Let me guess...The patient's name is Wong Wang.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:41:15 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: My2Cents
The joke possibilities are endless.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:44:34 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: tlb
The wife loved him more than ever and he couldn't take the rejection.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:45:54 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: tlb; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:48:23 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("How do you say 'Kiss my Holy Roman @ss' in Latin?" --Alouette)
To: tlb
This sounds like an episode of Robot Chicken.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:49:18 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(Gentlemen, Dethklok has summoned a troll.)
To: tlb
the article's link is wrong (bad link)
Could it be that 10cm was not satisfactory for her!
Surely they could have found one that was 18cm or more.
To: tlb
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:54:33 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: Slings and Arrows
OMG, it's missing again!!!
Can't quite identify the genre of that one. ROFL!
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:54:46 PM PDT
by
phantomworker
("A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce." Sofa king crazy.)
To: RouxStir
"the man with a 1cm-long stump"Bill Clinton, is that you?
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09/17/2006 10:54:55 PM PDT
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My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
To: tlb
Wow, almost instantly bumped to "General Chat". Humor possibilities aside such a complex procedure is a medical marvel and certainly as scientifically legitimate as other topics I enjoy reading such as astronomy or oil production and similar matters regularly discussed as "News".
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09/17/2006 10:55:46 PM PDT
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tlb
To: stlnative
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:56:53 PM PDT
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tlb
To: stlnative
I guess that is about right if you are 5'5" and wear a size 6 narrow shoe.
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posted on
09/17/2006 10:57:51 PM PDT
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gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: tlb
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