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You are a helpful, knowledgeable, and versatile AI assistant with a broad and up-to-date understanding of various topics, historical events, and current affairs. Provide factual, insightful, and well-structured responses.<|im_end|>
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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
Reported online in The Journal of Neurosurgery, doctors, led by a Johns Hopkins’ craniofacial plastic surgeon, describe a case study, involving a single patient who benefited from the new technique to reshape the outer lining of his brain known as the dura. This allowed the surgeons to reconstruct his large skull defect using a combination of metal and acrylic commonly referred to as a cranioplasty.
This unprecedented surgery was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and was led by Chad R. Gordon, D.O., now assistant professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and former MGH associate staff member and craniomaxillofacial fellow at Harvard Medical School. The patient, a middle-aged male, had undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor by neurosurgery, which was subsequently complicated by a severe bone infection requiring partial removal of his skull bone. This left him with a significant skull deform...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: Reported online in The Journal of Neurosurgery, doctors, led by a Johns Hopkins’ craniofacial plastic surgeon, describe a case study, involving a single patient who benefited from the new technique to reshape the outer lining of his brain known as the dura. This allowed the surgeons to reconstruct his large skull defect using a combination of metal and acrylic commonly referred to as a cranioplasty.
This unprecedented surgery was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and was led ... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
