http://blog.cleveland.com/medical/20...ls_of_cle.html
"The patient, a woman who was not identified, had suffered severe facial trauma several years earlier. Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic replaced about 80 percent of her face. (The Clinic has provided an
online graphic demonstrating the procedure.)
Only the woman's upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left -- the rest of her face was replaced with one donated from a female cadaver The donor also was not identified.
Departing from regular protocol governing organ donation consent, hospital and organ donation officials sought approval from the donor's family to use her facial tissue before going ahead with the surgery."
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