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Also Known As graft

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Consultant Surgeon Andrew Ready uses surgical tools to flush a donor kidney in a kidney transplant procedure at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
autologous bone marrow transplant
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Dr. Dorry Segev wearing glasses and a dark suit with black shirt speaks on stage, gesturing with both hands.
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
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James D. Hardy
American surgeon
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
South African surgeon
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Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist

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