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Wounded soldier receives historic penis transplant
More than 1,300 U.S. men fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered devastating injuries to the genitals, affecting self-esteem and identity. Now surgeons in Baltimore say they have performed a transplant of a penis, scrotum and part of the abdominal wall on an anonymous wounded soldier. Jeffrey Brown talks to Dr. Richard Redett of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
