US doctors perform world's first skull-scalp transplant
June 05, 2015  02:16
Texas doctors have done the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant to help a man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment, opening a new frontier in transplant surgery. 

Doctors from Houston Methodist Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center did the operation two weeks ago. The recipient Jim Boysen, a 55-year-old software developer expects to leave the hospital today with a new kidney and pancreas along with the scalp and skull grafts.
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