Reuters Photo: Sambhu Roy, an electrician, shows a piece of his own skull in a hospital
Posted on 07/05/2006 6:49:20 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Piece of man's skull falls off, draws crowds
By Bappa Majumdar
1 hour, 46 minutes ago
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.
"When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull," Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.
"Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases."
The piece came off Sunday and hundreds of people and dozens of doctors now crowd around his bed, where he lies holding the bone.
Bandyopadhyay said the skull's inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffected, allowing fresh bone to grow.
"When the skull came off, I thought he will die, but we noticed a new covering on his head forming and that might have pushed the 'dead skull' out," he said.
While possible, such cases are extremely rare.
Roy was injured and almost killed when he was electrocuted while repairing a high voltage wire last October.
"Doctors say a new skull covering has replaced the old one, but I am not letting go of this one," he told Reuters.
He intends to keep his prized possession for life and not hand it over to the hospital when he leaves: "My skull has made me famous," he says.
Reuters Photo: Sambhu Roy, an electrician, shows a piece of his own skull in a hospital
he better not ever join a fraternity and pass out drunk.
Not a small piece either.
Ooops. What happened to the link?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060705/od_nm/india_skull1_dc;_ylt=AprN1DJjIAhVrNFQduYneAas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
New King Missile lyrics coming out any day
That's how you get ahead in life! Ahahahahahah!
Oh the things that make the news!
There goes my appetite.
First the man with two brains, now the man with two skulls........
Wow. I may vomit now.
Leni
Pssst, not just Harvard.
This is known as a skullastic opportunity!
Bizarre. Just Bizarre.
I feel sorry for the man too. He'll probably never have a normal life after this disaster.
Skull and Bones is at Yale.
Brain firecracker.
Leni
Its shaped like the continent of Africa..
Not just Yale!
I hate it when that happens.
Looks like a plaster cast of Africa to me.........
Bet it'll be up on eBay soon.
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