Surgeons reattach 11-year-old's arm at the shoulder, in medical first for Greece

An 11-year-old boy whose arm had been severed at the shoulder was recovering at Aghia Sofia Children's Hospital in Attica on Monday after a team of surgeons from three different Attica hospitals performed the first successful surgery to reattach a limb at shoulder height ever carried out on a child in Greece. The boy was reported to be in a serious but stable condition.