LONDON: A British man who had his head ripped off from his spine in a car accident has survived, a media report said.
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. Cowan now 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 crashed into a telephone pole.
His heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated by paramedics at the location 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.
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