How Many Organs to be Transplanted Before Digestive System No Longer Your Own?

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How Many Organs to be Transplanted Before Digestive System No Longer Your Own? This nine-year-old Maine girl got six: stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of her esophagus. Huge kudos to Children’s Hospital, for successfully performing the risky surgery of last resort. If all goes as planned, the doctors will have saved her life and defeated the myofibroblastic tumor that had nearly killed her. [Fox News via AP]

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