London, May 24 (IANS) A British man who had his head ripped off from his spine in a car crash has survived, a media report said on Sunday.
Indian-origin neuro-surgeon Anant Kamat re-attached Tony Cowan’s skull to his spine with a metal plate and bolts in a rare operation. Now, Cowan hopes to go home soon, Mirror online reported.
Tony Cowan from Newcastle city met with an accident on September 9 last year, when his car hit a speed-bump, spun out of control and wrapped around a telephone pole.
His heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated by paramedics at the scene before being rushed to a hospital. Cowan sustained a fracture in his neck and complete spinal cord injury — an injury medics describe as almost “unsurvivable”.
He was not brain-damaged even though his head was snapped off from his spine and it was only being held in place by tissue and muscle at the time of crash.