A nine-year-old girl has returned home in the U.S. state of Maine following surgery led by a Korean American doctor last October to have six of her organs transplanted at once.

Alannah Shevenell had a large tumor growing in six of her organs that could not be successfully removed or cured by chemotherapy.

Doctor Kim Heung-bae at Children's Hospital Boston transplanted Alannah's esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen and small intestines in a 14-hour procedure.

Professor of surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Allan Kirk, said no other esophagus transplant has been reported in medical literature. Kirk also serves as editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Transplantation.