A Georgia couple is suing a health care system after they say staff at one of its Atlanta hospitals misplaced a portion of the husband’s skull, which had been temporarily removed and later scheduled ...

Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR A Georgia couple has filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital after they say hospital staff allegedly misplaced part of the husband’s skull following his brain surgery ...

Fernando Cluster was charged $19,000 for a synthetic skull replacement piece that ultimately also had to be removed after it became infected, according to his lawsuit against Atlanta's Emory ...

Emory Hospital is currently under fire after reportedly losing a patient's bone skull flap and then charging him to have it replaced. Emory Hospital is under fire after losing part of a patient’s ...

A craniotomy and craniectomy are two types of surgeries that involve removing a flap of bone from your skull to reveal part of your brain. During a craniotomy, the flap of bone is replaced at the end ...

A supratentorial craniotomy is a surgery that involves temporarily removing a piece of bone in the skull to allow access to the brain. A person may have this surgery to treat tumors, bleeding, or ...

After he healed from that surgery, Cluster was scheduled to have the bone flap reimplanted in early November, but as he was being prepped for the cranioplasty, the complaint states Emory’s staff ...

A Georgia couple has filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital after they say hospital staff allegedly misplaced part of the husband’s skull following his brain surgery. In a lawsuit filed in a ...