South African doctors pull off the world's first successful penis transplant on a 21-year-old man whose organ was amputated three years ago after a botched circumcision.
The nine-hour operation, which took place on Dec 11, 2014, was part of a pilot study by Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch to help 250 or so young South African men who had lost their penises after their coming-of-age circumcision ritual went wrong.
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