Doctors in Texas have made partial transplants skull and scalp for the first time in the world, helping a man with a large head wound from cancer treatment.
Jim Boysen patient, 55-year-old - is expected to come from the hospital on Thursday, with a new kidney and pancreas, together with the scalp and skull transplanted, REL reports.
He said he was amazed at how the doctors had managed to find an organ donor with similar skin and color.
"It is somewhat shocking, really. I will have more hair than when I was 21 years old ", did Boysen joked in an interview with The Associated Press.
Last year, doctors in the Netherlands said they had replaced most of the skull of a woman with a plastic 3D printer to print.
Texas operation is thought to be the first transplant of a skull from a human donor, compared with an artificial plants are made.
Over the last decade, they are made transplants that were considered impossible to make.
More than 70 hand transplants have been done worldwide.
Last October, a Swedish woman became the world's first born child after a womb transplant.
A host of patients have received transplants or plants from body parts printed by 3D printers.
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