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The recent history of face transplantation includes a few chronological key issues that promoted the development of face VCA in the past few years. In November 2004, following an increasing scientific, social and mass media interest, the Royal College of Surgeons in London released the “Working Party Report on Face Transplantation”, which concluded that at that point further basic science, psychological and translational research was necessary to implement the discipline in human clinical practice. At that moment in time, though, the University of Louisville had published a series of documents pointing out the ethical and scientific relevance of face transplantation in selected patients.
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Barret, J.P., Tomasello, V. (2015). History of Face Transplantation and Objectives. In: Face Transplantation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45444-2_2
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