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  • "Ex-county man ready to go home after double-hand transplant" (via Fortean Times)

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.

    Socialist health care is the worst 2009

  • Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.

    Socialist health care is the worst 2009

  • A double-hand scoop and the waters roll back where his hand has removed.

    Cavern-carver dudemanflab 2007

  • The marks encompassed the entire neck; much too long and broad to be a single - or double-hand span.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • We had a siege of the Fort Bombadero, inaccessible, and with mortars firing double-hand grenades.

    Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Doctors transplanted not only a face but also gave her a double-hand transplant.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • A double-hand transplant done at the same time as her face transplant, from the same donor, failed after she suffered a post-surgical bout of pneumonia that caused her blood pressure to fall, so the hands were deprived of sufficient blood at a crucial time.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Then there's double-hand poker, which can be exciting or confounding: Each player is dealt seven cards and uses them to form two hands, a five-card hand and a two-card hand.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Michael Shapiro 2011

  • WARSAW, Poland | A Polish soldier who received a double-hand transplant earlier this month is doing well, and the operation has been a success, a doctor involved in the transplant said today.

    Local News from The Lakeland Ledger 2010

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