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Video: Texas Docs Perform World’s First Skull and Scalp Transplant

Doctors perform world’s first skull and scalp transplant surgery on Texas man.

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Doctor’s performing the surgery. (Photo: AP screengrab)
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Doctor’s performing the surgery. (Photo: AP screengrab)
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Texas doctors at Anderson Cancer Centre have carried out the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant. This has opened up a new frontier in transplant surgery.

The recipient, 55-year-old Jim Boysen, a software developer, expects to leave the hospital on Thursday.

The surgery, which lasted for 15 hours, is thought to be the first skull-scalp transplant from a human donor, as opposed to an artificial implant or a simple bone graft.

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