Poland's first-ever face transplant has been recognised as the world's best example of reconstructive surgery of 2013 at a recent annual meeting of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) in Hawaii media reported Thursday. The surgery was carried out in May 2013 at the Institute of Oncology in Gliwice of southern Poland by a team headed by Prof Adam Maciejewski Xinhua reported. A 33-year-old patient had had his face virtually ripped off during an accident while he was operating a machine that cuts stones. The accident had left him with no chance of survival without the operation. The ASRM
