
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1990                   TAG: 9006130539
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

SCALP REPLACED IN LENGTHY OPERATION

A woman whose scalp was torn off from the eyelids to the nape of her neck, exposing the skull, had her scalp sewn back on in a 14-hour operation. "She's going to be just fine," the lead surgeon said.

A team of five surgeons worked with high-powered microscopes to replace the woman's entire scalp, small blood vessels and other tissues torn from her head last week in a vineyard accident in Napa Valley.

The 33-year-old vineyard manager, whose family asked that her name not be released, was working in the field at Domaine Chandon on June 4 when her hair caught in the rotor of a sprayer crankshaft, the hospital said Tuesday.

Her co-workers had enough presence of mind to preserve the scalp.

-Associated Press

by CNB