Almost forgot or something!!! Had a story to post, one taht fits in quite well with the theme of the past few days:
In a 25-hour operation, surgeons in Australia reattached the face of a woman after a farm machine tore much of her scalp and face from her head, doctors said Monday.
The 28-year-old woman, from Shepparton, in central Victoria state, was injured when her hair got caught in machinery in a milking shed Sept. 16, ripping off virtually her entire face and scalp, exposing the bones and muscle of her face.
"The tissue that was sent to us was packed in ice, and when we unraveled it and laid it out, here was a face looking at us", said Dr Wayne Morrison, who led the team that reattached her face.
The surgeons--two Australians, an Indian and two Japanese--used microscopes to magnify tiny blood vessels as much as 30 times to match the vessels in the amputated tissue with the remaining tissue.
The surgeons said the woman would look much as she had before the accident except for scars around her eyelids and chin. |
