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Page last updated at 06:46 GMT, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 07:46 UK

UK face transplant 'a year away'

A man burned terribly in a fire is being given a new face and two new hands in an extraordinary transplant operation. Professor Peter Butler, of the Royal Free Hospital and head of the UK's face transplant team, explains the challenge facing the doctors in Paris working on the patient.

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