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A man whose skull was smashed to bits in a horrific lawnmower accident has had it replaced using an implant created with a 3D printer. Michal Lesiow, 31, from Kutna, Poland, was taken to hospital with grass, mud and bone fragments in his shattered skull after the rotary lawnmower ran over his head as he cut grass outside his house. … Dr. Pawel Kolasa, head of neurosurgery at the hospital in Łódź where Mr. Lesiow was taken, said: “The patient had massive trauma to the skull, with a hole showing part of the brain. He was lucky to have survived.”...

Perforated skulls provide evidence of craniotomy in ancient China Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-01-26 11:11 The modern technology of craniotomy, a surgical operation which is performed on the brain through an incision in the skull, may have been in use in China nearly 3,000 years ago. Scientists made the conclusion after a detailed study of 13 perforated skulls that had been unearthed in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The skulls were found in a cluster of more than 2,000 ancient tombs in the desert outside Turpan, 200 kilometers east of the regional capital Urumqi, said Lu Enguo, a researcher with the Xinjiang...