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Hospital reports of bone-like formation on patient's skull

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KOLKATA: Doctors have observed fresh bone-like formation on a patient's skull, as he recuperates in a State-run district hospital in West Bengal.

"It is a rare medical development and researchers from any government institution wishing to examine the skull portions are welcome to the hospital," superintendent of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital in Kalyani, Nirupam Biswas, , told The Hindu on Tuesday. The dislocated remnants of the skull have been preserved in a plastic packet .

Electrician Shambu Roy, 28, was admitted to the hospital on October 30, 2005, with severe burn injuries on the head after coming in contact with high-tension wires while setting up the electrical connection to a Kali puja pandal .

"Nearly two months into his admission, at the time of dressing, it was noticed that much of the skin above the skull had peeled off. Some weeks later the upper portion of the skull, roughly one third of the entire skull, was found dislocated and the brain partially exposed. We continued with the dressing till about four months ago when we found bone-like formations covering up the exposed brain, " attending surgeon Ratanlal Banerjee, said.

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