The "Herminator" endured skin grafts and surgery to implant a titanium rod in his leg, but was not ready to give up and was duly rewarded on Saturday.
"One of the victims was in hospital for seven days, where they had two operations, including skin grafts and plastic surgery, " he added.
In October, cancer services came once again under the microscope with the case of mid Wales farmer Powell Jones who was still awaiting surgery for skin cancer 15 months after being diagnosed.
The mountains of excess flesh soon slip off, so much so that about half of bariatric patients later undergo surgery to remove surplus skin flapping around their abdomen, upper arms and legs.
Without cadavers we would have no heart transplants, no skin grafts, no gender-reassignment surgery.
Patients are also advised about the importance of sleeping on clean sheets before surgery to avoid bacteria on the skin.
It means that the doctor did three years of dedicated skin disease training at an accredited dermatology residency studying cutaneous medicine, surgery and pathology.
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Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.
Dr Tzou and his colleagues are looking at uses ranging from cutting out burnt skin and melanomas, to dentistry, bonding joint implants to bone, and general surgery.
Companies are in the process of testing a device that will replace lung volume reduction surgery for patients with emphysema and repair heart valves by going through the skin.
The physician wanted to perform the surgery in the outpatient surgery center instead of performing an office procedure, which is the most common place to remove a skin cyst.
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