Skin From Dead Twin May Save Child's Life
Skin taken from the bod> of her dead twin sister may save the life oi* two-year-old Xancy Robles. Nancy and her sister Marie were both _ sevorely burned. when iheir elothes caught tiro 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 aiterward performed. Success of the graft will not be known until the bandages are rernuved. Surgeons say the skin from Marie may be dead, but ehances of success are regarded as excellent, betause skiu-gr'afting between identical twins twins usually takes.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 3
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113Skin From Dead Twin May Save Child's Life Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 3
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