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What is an autotransplantation?

What is an autotransplantation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The transplantation of tissue from one part of the body to another
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This unfavourable opinion was essentially based on medullo-adrenal autotransplantation, whose danger is unquestionable, but whose effectiveness is doubtful.
I ended up having a renal autotransplantation, which was a huge operation to save my kidneys.
The patient remained free of disease 24 months after undergoing chemotherapy, at which point she requested autotransplantation of the thawed ovarian tissue.
Note that this is a case of autotransplantation, meaning transplantation between locations in the same body.
As a result, many teams of surgeons, especially in the United States, in Great Britain, China, Spain, Italy and Cuba, started to practise medullo-adrenal autotransplantation, following the example of the Mexican surgeons.
New options for salvage treatment may narrow the gap, if one exists, between single and tandem autotransplantation.

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