The team included more than 40 surgeons, nurses and support staff to complete the 12-hour procedure. The surgery involved transplanting skin, tendons, muscles, ligaments, bone and blood vessels.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital performed the first double hand transplant earlier this year.
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