It's unusual for Worldwide Penis News to get "scooped" by traditional media publishing a penis report, but that happened last Friday after we published. This demonstrates how important penis news is to millions of people, both with and without penises.
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A South African surgical team completed the world's first successful
long-term penile transplant, giving a 21-year-old man a working penis more than
three years after he lost his own from complications stemming from a ritual
circumcision that went awry.
The groundbreaking nine-hour procedure, performed on Dec. 11, 2014, restored all of the man’s urinary and reproductive functions, the doctors said Friday.
“Our goal was that he would be fully functional at two years and we are very surprised by his rapid recovery,” lead surgeon Andre van der Merwe, of Stellenbosch University, said Friday.
The groundbreaking nine-hour procedure, performed on Dec. 11, 2014, restored all of the man’s urinary and reproductive functions, the doctors said Friday.
“Our goal was that he would be fully functional at two years and we are very surprised by his rapid recovery,” lead surgeon Andre van der Merwe, of Stellenbosch University, said Friday.
Doctors in China successfully performed a similar transplant years ago, but the 44-year-old recipient and his wife had such a severe psychological reaction to the new organ that doctors sliced off the transplant two weeks later later.
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