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Doctors in Texas perform world's first skull-scalp transplant
Source: The Telegraph
Cancer patient Jim Boysen had first skull-scalp transplant from a human donor, as opposed to an artificial implant or a simple bone graft, to fix a large head wound
Surgeons in Texas have performed the world’s first skull and scalp transplant on a cancer patient who had a large head wound.
The doctors simultaneously performed kidney and pancreas transplants in a surgery lasting 15 hours and involving a team of more than 50 medical staff.
The patient, James Boysen, suffers from a rare form of cancer, and radiation therapy had destroyed part of his skull.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11652225/Doctors-in-Texas-perform-worlds-first-skull-scalp-transplant.html
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