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Doctors fail to reattach arm of boy attacked by alligator
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Published: August 1, 2008
NEW ORLEANS -- Doctors were unable to reattach an 11-year-old Louisiana boy's arm that had been retrieved from the belly of an alligator, a family friend said yesterday.
Doctors at Ochsner Hospital worked Wednesday night to reattach Devin Funck's left arm, which had been taken to a hospital after its recovery about 31/2 hours after the attack. But family friend Cory Dunn said that the effort was unsuccessful.
"They could not save the arm," Dunn said. "He's got a long way to go, lots of surgery. He'll need prosthesis."
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