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Doctors To Perform First Penis Transplant In Baltimore by tinafix: 12:32pm On Dec 08, 2015
Doctors in Baltimore, Maryland will perform up to 60 penis transplants on injured veterans who lost their genitals in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be the first time the procedure is performed in the United States.
Johns Hopkins University has given three doctors permission to perform the experimental surgery within a year, the New York Times reported. The university, which runs one of the premier medical schools in the US, will monitor the results, then decide whether to make the operation a standard treatment.

Nearly 1,400 military servicemen sustained injuries to the genitals between 2011 and 2013 in Iraq and Afghanistan alone, according to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. The vast majority of the 1,367 injured troops was under 35 and had lost all or part of their joysticks or testicles on account of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Approximately 7 percent of male military personnel under the age of 40 sustained genital injuries during their military service, a 2014 report in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found.
Of the 16,323 trauma admissions between 2001 and 2008, 5 percent involved genitourinary injuries ‒ trauma including the genitals, bladder, urinary tract and kidneys. The majority of those injuries were to the scrotum (29 percent), followed by the kidney, (22.9 percent), bladder (21.3 percent), penis (14.2 percent), testicle (9.1 percent), ureter (2.7percent), and urethra (0.8 percent), according to a 2010 report in the Journal of Trauma.

“These genitourinary injuries are not things we hear about or read about very often,” Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee, the chairman of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins, told the New York Times. “I think one would agree it is as devastating as anything that our wounded warriors suffer, for a young man to come home in his early 20s with the pelvic area completely destroyed.”
When men are injured in combat, the first thing they ask about after surgery is their genitals, doctors told the NY Times.
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Re: Doctors To Perform First Penis Transplant In Baltimore by okeyley: 12:34pm On Dec 08, 2015
please can some one lead me out here




By the way what is joystick?
Re: Doctors To Perform First Penis Transplant In Baltimore by northvietnam(m): 12:39pm On Dec 08, 2015
@ man above me, its called Dickson

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