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Man's nose grown on forehead ahead of transplant
Northwest Cable News ^ | September 26, 2013 | RYAN JASLOW

Posted on 09/26/2013 2:59:39 PM PDT by matt1234

A Chinese man whose nose was severely disfigured following a car accident will soon get a replacement—in the form of a nose that has been growing on his forehead.

A video from Chinese television station CCTV shows doctors checking the nose’s progress on the forehead of a 22-year-old man named Xiaolian at a hospital in Fuzhou located in the Fujian province, Reuters reports.

The man reportedly only got basic medical care after he was involved in a car accident last year. He developed an infection that corroded the cartilage in his nose, which made reconstruction surgery impossible.

That’s when they decided to grow a new one. Doctors placed a tissue expander into the man’s forehead that stretched out his skin, fashioning it into the shape of a nose. They then took cartilage from his rib and placed it in his forehead, allowing the skin to grow over the cartilage scaffolding.

(Excerpt) Read more at nwcn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Humor; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: health; humor; medicine; weird
Photo at link.
1 posted on 09/26/2013 2:59:39 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ping.


2 posted on 09/26/2013 3:00:16 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: matt1234

um- it looks more like a penis is growing on his forehead- but who am i to say...


3 posted on 09/26/2013 3:03:29 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: matt1234

If it rains he’ll drown!


4 posted on 09/26/2013 3:06:51 PM PDT by albie
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To: matt1234; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

It was just a matter of time. Once they can take a toe and transplant it where a thumb once was, anything else is possible!


5 posted on 09/26/2013 3:09:10 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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To: matt1234

The doctor nose best. Although, it’s snot what I would want.


6 posted on 09/26/2013 3:10:09 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: albie
If it rains he’ll drown!

Nah. It's China...on the other side of the world. Everything is upside down. Haven't you seen the Warner Brothers cartoons?

7 posted on 09/26/2013 3:12:06 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: matt1234

Not to be snooty, but I pinged an earlier posting of this story. Of course, you didn’t nose that.


8 posted on 09/26/2013 3:16:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: matt1234

He can scratch his head while picking his nose.


9 posted on 09/26/2013 3:45:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: matt1234

I wonder if things like this will become the norm here when obamacare gets into full swing.


10 posted on 09/26/2013 3:46:16 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: matt1234

New and improved hair cream...SNOT!


11 posted on 09/26/2013 3:51:14 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: matt1234

...And now, for something completely different.
A man with nine legs.
“He ran away!”
“Oh, bloody hell!”


12 posted on 09/26/2013 3:54:35 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Impeach We Much!)
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To: matt1234
A Chinese man whose nose was severely disfigured following a car accident will soon get a replacement—in the form of a nose that has been growing on his forehead.

It's a good thing his leg wasn't disfigured.

13 posted on 09/26/2013 3:58:17 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: matt1234

One would think they could grow it somewhere that wasn’t as noticable as the big middle of his forehead. Yes, you want the same skin and no hair and for goodness sake turn it rightside up.


14 posted on 09/26/2013 4:06:35 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: matt1234

Our dear Jay Carney must have been modded here.The noticeably offset pie hole is supposedly meant to distract from the lies being espoused. Also known as talking out of the side of mouth to an EXTREME. Bless his heart.


15 posted on 09/26/2013 4:30:02 PM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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To: matt1234

Unngh.


16 posted on 09/26/2013 4:43:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: matt1234

This is great news for all those guys who had their penises chopped off.


17 posted on 09/26/2013 4:44:56 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bgill

How about when he takes his shirt off and notices an extra eye looking at him from his shoulder?

Remember that sci-fi flick?


18 posted on 09/26/2013 5:00:36 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: matt1234

Too bad they didn’t have that technology when Michael Jackson’s nose fell off!


19 posted on 09/26/2013 8:54:45 PM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: matt1234
Nothing new. I vaguely knnow Beck Weathers, the pathologist who was severely frostbitten near the summit of Mount Everest during the infamous Into Thin Air tragedy.

His doctors grew his relacement nose on his forehead, and that was around 1997-1998.

20 posted on 09/27/2013 7:07:59 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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