A plastic surgeon in China has successfully grown an
artificial ear on a man's arm in a pioneering medical procedure. The
patient, surnamed Ji, lost his right ear in an accident and yearned to
get it back. Doctor Guo Shuzhong from a hospital in Xi'an, China's
Shaanxi Province, used Mr Ji's cartilage from his ribs to build the new
ear; and transplanted the organ to the man's head in about four months.
