Brainless civil servant amazes doctors
Frenchman's skull a 'huge fluid-filled chamber'
Published Monday 23rd July 2007 09:21 GMT
A French man whose skull was mostly occupied by a
"huge fluid-filled chamber" was able to operate perfectly well as a
civil servant - despite having "little more than a thin sheet of actual
brain tissue", Reuters reports.
The 44-year-old's condition was revealed when he went to hospital
suffering from mild weakness in his left leg. A probe of his medical
history revealed he'd had a shunt inserted into his skull as an infant
to relieve hydrocephalus, which was removed when he was 14.