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Miraculous Surgeries: Woman's Ear Reattached After Trauma

12/11/2025

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A factory worker in Jinan, China had her left ear torn off after hair tangled in machinery, prompting heterotopic grafting that attached the ear to her right foot.
After five months, surgeons reattached the ear to its original position, and Ms. Sun expressed tears of gratitude.
Two decades after a sports accident left Megan King with severe spinal injuries, doctors reattached her head and spine and diagnosed hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

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A factory worker in Jinan, China had her left ear torn off after hair tangled in machinery, prompting heterotopic grafting that attached the ear to her right foot.
After five months, surgeons reattached the ear to its original position, and Ms. Sun expressed tears of gratitude.
Two decades after a sports accident left Megan King with severe spinal injuries, doctors reattached her head and spine and diagnosed hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.