dr. richard redett, joins us now. idlcome to you. doctor, first, whyou and your team feel this was important to do? >> well, you know, we met ourr patient e first time about five years ago, and we evaluated him and examined him. we realized that the losses of s tissue was vergnificant. it involved part of his abdominal wall, his entire peni d his scroam scrotum, and he had other neighboring injuries that made conventionallm reconstructiont impossible for him. at the same time we started doing a penis transplant, we had a great candidate, a great person, and itsense. >> nawaz: these types of tr before, but what made this one unique? >> there have been three prior penis transplants we know about, two in south africa, one in boston, and those were partial th complete penis transplants, but what makes so unique is it involves the entire penis, the scroas um d part of his abdominal wall. when these soldiers sustain ese type of injuries, they get a big blast to the pelvis and lose a lot offish tewsm we were able to replace exactly what he