WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A little girl badly burned when a gas can exploded outside her family's north Charlotte home more than a year ago will be back in surgery Thursday.
Emily Hinton and her family will head to Winston-Salem in the morning for the five-hour-long surgery.
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Surgeons will be using a full thickness graft and release her neck scars again, as well as some places on her left arm and hand.
She will remain in the hospital for at least a couple weeks to recover.
Emily has had several surgeries since the accident in September 2015.
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