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What is a voicebox transplant?

January 21, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Health & Fitness, News and Society, Society, Womens Health

WASHINGTON – A US woman was reunited on Thursday with doctors who gave her a new larynx and restored her ability to speak after a rare voicebox transplant surgery, only the second ever successfully performed. Ms Brenda Jensen, 52, a lifelong diabetes sufferer, lost her voice after she was hospitalised in 1998 for kidney failure. …