A new ear has grown on the hand of an American.

Doctors from the United States of America have grown a new ear for the patient right on her arm.

Photo: US Army

The procedure is called "the first of its kind" at a military base. The ear was reconstructed and “grown” under the skin of the right forearm of a female soldier.

The cartilage of which the ear consisted was assembled by doctors from the ribs. Then he was placed under the skin of her forearm so that it could grow.

This procedure is one of the most complex ear reconstructions in the United States, according to the ABC News report, and allows you to create new blood vessels in the cartilage.

Ear loss was just one of the many injuries a woman received after a serious car accident that occurred in Fort Bliss, Texas.

As a result, the woman had a head injury, as well as compression fractures in the spine. If the doctors had not helped her for half an hour after the accident, she could have died.

After the accident, Barrage said she didn’t like the way she looked and turned to a plastic surgeon. Although she was initially afraid to go through the process of reconstruction of the ear, but said she wanted to see what the doctors could do.

She did not need any prostheses. Instead, plastic surgeons at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paz used her own cartilage.

It is reported that the operation was successful, and Barrage recovered hearing.

Although this is the first time that this type of ear reconstruction was performed by an army surgeon, the idea of ​​ear “growing” is not new to science or medicine.

In 1990, a shocking, but real photo of a mouse with what seemed to be a man’s ear attached to his back was widespread.

There were also at least two cases in which doctors performed similar procedures. In 2012, a woman lost her ear after cancer and began to grow it under the skin of her forearm, reports ABC News. A few years later, doctors in China tried to grow an ear in the hand of a man who lost it in a car accident, reports China Daily.

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