印度醫生在一男童額頭"種"鼻子 爲其恢復容貌!

Doctors in India have replaced a 12-year-old boy's damaged nose with a new one which was grown on his forehead.

日前，印度醫生利用在一名12歲男孩前額上“種”出的新鼻子，替換掉了該男孩原本受損的鼻子。

A similar operation was carried out in China in 2013 where a man who had damaged his nose in a traffic accident was given a new one.

2013年，中國也曾進行過相似的手術，爲一位在車禍中鼻子受損的男子換了個新鼻子。

Arun Patel's nose was badly damaged and disfigured when he suffered from pneuMonia as a baby. The infection damaged the cartilage of his nose, making it difficult for doctors to fix it.

阿倫·柏特爾在嬰兒時期換上肺炎，導致他的鼻子嚴重受損和變形。這次感染破壞了他鼻子的軟骨，使得醫生很難修復他的鼻子。

Arun's parents took him to a doctor in their village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. But the treatment made his condition worse and he lost his nose due to extensive tissue damage.

之後，阿倫的父母帶他前往中部城邦曼杜的村裏，去看一位醫生。但那次的治療加劇了阿倫的病情，他在大面積的組織損傷中失去了鼻子。

More than a decade later, a team of doctors in Indore city decided to conduct a rare four-phased plastic surgery to give Arun a new nose.

十多年後，印多爾城的一隊醫生決定實施一項總共分爲四個階段的罕見手術，給阿倫一個新的鼻子。

Dr Ashwini Dash, who led the surgical team, told BBC that he was "confident that the new nose would work properly like his other organs". He added that the entire operation took about a year to finish.

這一醫療團隊的負責人阿施維尼·達什教授接受BBC採訪時採訪時表示，他確信這個新的鼻子會像阿倫其他的器官那樣正常工作。此外他補充說道，整個手術花了大約一年的時間來完成。

In the first phase, a silicon "tissue expander" was put on his forehead to make space to grow a new nose. Then a special chemical was injected to make the tissues expand.

在第一階段，在阿倫的前額放入一個硅膠“組織擴張器”，使這裏有空間長出新鼻子。之後便注入一種特別的化學物質使組織擴張。

The second phase involved taking cartilage from his chest to create a new nose, which grew on his forehead over three months.

在第二階段，從阿倫的胸腔取出一塊軟骨來製造新的鼻子，這塊軟骨在他的前額生長超過三個月。

The doctors removed the artificial nose in the third phase and implanted it on his face. The final phase involved repairing his forehead.

醫生在第三階段取出這個人工鼻子，並移植到他的臉上。最後一個階段就是關於修復阿倫的前額。