Multiple-tissue transplants have only been achieved recently. Examples of this sort of procedures include transplanting an entire limb, grafting skin, or perhaps, possibly replacing a [femur] with a one grown in tissue culture.

Transplants involving more than one type of tissue are called composite tissue [allotransplantation].

We will cover this topic in 3 sections, Transplantation from:

one part of the body to another
one person to another
one species to another

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