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World's first skull and scalp transplant performed on cancer sufferer with huge hole in head

Boysen was offered the transplant after cancer left him with a huge head wound

A cancer sufferer who was left with a huge open wound in his head has now been given a new skull and scalp in pioneering surgery.

American surgeons claim the operation on software developer Jim Boysen was the first of its kind ever performed.

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