A nine-year-old boy had part of his skull transplanted into his stomach for three weeks. Jahfari Martin was severely injured when he was knocked off his bike by a car. The doctors had to do a serious operation to save his life, The Daily Mail reports. They removed a section of his skull and implanted it in his stomach as a sterile environment. After 17 days Jahfari returned to hospital to have the piece of skull reattached to his head and three months on he is back at school. The surgery was necessary to relieve pressure after Jahfari's brain became so swollen it was putting his life at risk.

The operation was performed by the neurological surgeons from Southampton Children's Hospital. They gently removed the skin from Jahfari's forehead just above the eye line, then cut out a section of skull bigger than a adult's hand to help alleviate the pressure.

Then the team of the doctors kept that section of his skull in the stomach for 18 days until the head was recovered sufficiently. In the past in case of such operations doctors used a medical freezer, but the magical thing about that is the large pocket in the tummy is a sterile environment and it was able to keep the child's bones.

The little boy didn't realise his brakes weren't working. He careered out into the road. Witnesses described seeing Jahfari hit the car's windscreen and land unconscious in the road.

The little boy is a Chelsea FC football fan, and Chelsea captain, John Terry, sent him a get well soon card.