Nose grown on arm and transplanted to patient who lost it to cancer

Researchers from the University Hospital of Toulouse have teamed up with Cerhum. She uses more

perfect, compared to analogues, chemicals,and prints bones on a 3D printer. The goal is to help a patient who lost most of his nose, as well as the frontal area of ​​his palate, almost ten years ago. In 2013, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity.

Having survived cancer, the patient lived without a nose for many years before deciding to undergo reconstruction using skin flaps. However, the intervention did not produce results, and the nasal prosthesis did not help either.

The patient was now given the opportunityreconstruction of the nose, taking into account individual characteristics. Everything happened in two stages. First, a custom 3D-printed biomaterial that replaced the cartilage was created using images from before the loss of the nose and implanted in the patient's forearm. Thus, skin grafts taken from the temple area grew the necessary blood vessels.

Two months later, surgeons at the University of Toulousetransplanted a 3D printed nose, already with tissue, onto the patient’s face. The press release states that microsurgery was performed to connect blood vessels growing from the skin of the hands to those on the face.

The patient remained in the hospital for only ten days and was given a course of antibiotics for three weeks after the operation. He is reportedly feeling well now.

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