Fallopian tube transplant
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter) FRANKFURT, West Germany. A 31-year-old West German woman was “progressing favourably” after receiving what is believed to be the world’s first fallopian tube transplant to enable her to have more children. The tube came from a woman who had undergone a hysterectomy five months earlier, and it had been stored in deep freeze at a temperature of minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 331 degrees Fahrenheit). The transplant was carried out by a Frankfurt, gynaecologist. Dr Georg ; Sillo-Seidl, who specialises j in fertility problems. His patient, the mother of three children, had previously had herself sterilised to prevent further births. She remarried after the death of her first husband and wanted to have another child.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 7
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119Fallopian tube transplant Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 7
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