The first penis-scrotum transplant is the latest to go beyond lifesaving

Advances that give patients new faces, hands and more aim to improve quality of life

surgeons at Johns Hopkins

SCRUBBED IN  A team of nine plastic surgeons and two urologic surgeons transplanted a full penis, scrotum and part of the abdominal wall to a U.S. veteran in late March.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

In a transplant first, a U.S.