Complex surgery replaces a veteran’s nose:
In a series of six operations over a year-long period that ended with removal of the last sutures on May 2 – and that rank as one of the most complicated nasal reconstructions ever performed at Johns Hopkins – facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons have pieced together more than a dozen bits of bone, cartilage, skin, arteries and veins to rebuild Fletcher’s nose. All materials were taken from spare or renewable parts of his own body.
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