Surgeon save three-year-olds penis after botched barber-led circumcision
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A three-year-old boy in India had his penis completely amputated during a ritual circumcision performed by a local barber, and surgeons managed to save it using a relatively simple grafting technique instead of full microsurgery, according to a new medical report.The case, published in the Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, details how doctors at King George Medical University in Lucknow reattached the organ eight hours after the injury, despite being unable to reconnect the tiny arteries that
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