Unicyclist has skull part 'stored' in abdomen after horror accident

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Unicyclist João Victor da Silva Cristofoli was near successful a coma pursuing his mishap that near him with punctured lungs and a breached collarbone

A unicyclist has had portion of his skull "stored" successful his abdomen aft helium fell disconnected it portion helium was making a delivery.

João Victor da Silva Cristofoli, 25, from Brazil, fell erstwhile helium turned into raised pavement markers to debar hitting a car that had stopped abruptly. He injured his knee, punctured his lungs, broke his collarbone, and received a almighty stroke to the head. The second gave him a traumatic encephalon wounded and encephalon swelling.

Following the mishap successful March, surgeons had to chopped retired portion of his skull and relocate it to his abdomen for 3 months. João said helium felt "uncomfortable" erstwhile helium felt the precocious portion of his skull successful his abdomen.

He told NeedToKnow: "When the precocious information of my skull was successful my abdomen, I felt uncomfortable. Because determination was a bony determination that shouldn't person been, truthful it felt truly weird. As for the dent successful my head, it besides affected my self-esteem due to the fact that I was fundamentally deformed.

"On apical of that, determination were a batch of things I couldn't bash immoderate much since my encephalon nary longer had the bony protecting it. So if thing deed that spot, it would straight impact my brain."

The cognition João had is called a decompressive craniectomy. His surgeon, Kelly Cristina Bordignon Gomes, told section media: "By removing the precocious information of the skull, the swollen encephalon has country to expand.

"This prevents harm to important encephalon structures." Had the bony not been removed, Jo o risked processing a superior and perchance fatal encephalon injury.

The bony was relocated to his abdomen to support it from corruption and to assistance with reabsorption erstwhile reattached to the skull. Dr Gomes told section media: "It isn't kept wrong the abdomen, successful interaction with the intestines oregon bladder.

"But alternatively successful the abdominal wall, successful a subcutaneous furniture with a spot of abdominous wherever the bony is stored. Since the precocious information of the skull is large, it can't beryllium placed successful an country with immoderate tegument tension, similar the thigh."

After his accident, João spent 9 days successful a coma astatine a infirmary successful Toledo, Brazil, adjacent the borders with Paraguay and Argentina. A period aft his fall, helium was discharged from hospital.

Three months later, helium went backmost successful to person the bony reattached. It was placed backmost successful its spot and secured to the remainder of his skull with tiny plates and tiny screws.

Despite his ordeal, João is keen to get backmost connected his EUC unicylce erstwhile the clip is right. He said "As for getting backmost to unicycling, it's going to instrumentality astatine slightest different 2 months for my genu to afloat heal."