News Photo: Brendan Marrocco attends a press conference January 29…
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Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant

Caption: Brendan Marrocco attends a press conference, January 29, 2013, held at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, with his team of doctors to discuss his bilateral arm transplant surgery, which was done on Dec. 18, 2012. Marrocco lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq in 2009. Marrocco, from Staten Island, New York, is the first successful double arm transplant at Hopkins, and only the 7th patient in the U.S. to undergo this surgery. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun/MCT via Getty Images)
Date created: 29 Jan 2013
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Copyright: 2013 MCT
Keywords: Discussion, Healthcare And Medicine, Horizontal, Doctor, USA, Maryland, Baltimore - Maryland, Surgery, Military, Politics, Press Conference, Transplant Surgery, Human Interest, Attending. Find similar images
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