Britain's first hand swap op: Grandfather 'ecstatic' after ground-breaking 8-hour ...

• Mark Cahill, 51, suffered gout and grown infection, causing paralysis
• On Boxing Day became initial chairman to have a eight-hour landmark medicine
  
• Confirmation of success yesterday as he was means to pierce his fingers
  

By
James Tozer and Louise Eccles

PUBLISHED:

19:02 EST, 3 Jan 2013

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UPDATED:

21:03 EST, 4 Jan 2013

The surgeon who carried out Britain's initial palm transplant final night praised a donor's family for bringing about good from a 'awful tragedy of a desired one'.

Professor Simon Kay, who led a formidable eight-hour procession during Leeds General Infirmary, pronounced their accede had to be sought shortly after their relative's remarkable genocide on Boxing Day.

There is no parasite box for 'limbs' on donor register forms

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