An
ear grows under Sherrie Walter's arm. The skin cancer sufferer lost her
left ear and doctors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland grew
another using her own tissue under her forearm. (John Hopkins
Hospital/HO)Doctors in Maryland have successfully grown an ear on a skin cancer patient's arm to replace the one she lost to the disease.
Sherrie Walter grew the cartilage for a left ear on her forearm
for about four months before doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore surgically moved it to her head.
"I just thought I was something from science fiction," the 42-year-
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