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Larynx Transplant Restores Woman's Voice

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A Modesto woman is speaking and breathing on her own after an extraordinary surgery at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Surgeons there replaced the woman's voicebox, thyroid gland and trachea. It's believed to be only the second human larynx transplant in the world.

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