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Doctors in the US state of Texas have made a real breakthrough in medicine, having transplanted parts of the skull to the patient.
Specialists from the Anderson Cancer Center and the Methodist Houston Hospital jointly transplanted to a fifty-five year old patient an impressive portion of the cranium. Jim Boysen was treated for a malignant brain tumor and overcame it, however, radiation therapy destroyed a large part of the skull patient, so he needed an extremely complex and earlier bone and scalp transplant from dead the donor.
The operation lasted over fifteen hours and required effort ten surgeons and forty nurses. She was successful, in this the moment the patient feels well and is rapidly moving towards amendment. Relatives of the deceased did not ask for the donor’s identity disclose.
Recall that last year, Dutch doctors managed transplant patient who received a head injury during car accident, part of the skull, made on a special medical 3D printer made of synthetic polymer.
This, in the opinion of the world scientific community, is only the beginning. IN February at the American Academy of Surgeons Italian specialist Sergio Canavero said that in 2017 he will be able to implement transplantation of a human head on a donor body. Such an operation reportedly may allow a full life paralyzed people.
