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Piece of man's skull falls off
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-07 08:28

KOLKATA, India - 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.

Sambhu Roy, an electrician, shows a piece of his own skull in a hospital
at Kalyani, about 60 km (38 miles) north from the eastern Indian city of
Kolkata July 5, 2006. Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the
eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see Roy, 25, holding a piece of his own
skull that fell off. [Reuters]

"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.

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