SKIN FROM DEAD MAY SAVE CHILD’S LIFE
Skin taken from the body of her dead twin sister may save the life of two-year-old Nancy Robles. Nancy and her sister Marie were both severely burned when their clothes caught fire while playing, with a wood stove.
Marie died and surgeons immediately took strips of unburned skin from her body and refrigerated them while Nancy gained strength for a delicate grafting operation, which was afterward performed. Success of the graft will not be known until the bandages are removed.
Surgeons say the skin from Marie may be dead, but chances of success are regarded as excellent, because skin-grafting between * identical twins usually takes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 94, 14 February 1947, Page 3
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