Surgeons used skin from a man's arm - including a tattoo of the grim reaper - to reconstruct his tongue and voice box in a life-saving operation. Colin Reilly from Bristol, had to record his own ...

Mr Reilly was on the operating table for 12 hours Surgeons used skin from a man's arm - including a tattoo of the grim reaper - to reconstruct his tongue and voice box in a life-saving operation.

A tattoo of the grim reaper was used by surgeons to reconstruct a Bristol man’s face during a landmark surgery. The 12-hour operation was to remove a life-threatening tumour from the back of ...

Doctors saved a cancer-stricken man's life by reconstructing his throat - using skin covered in a Grim Reaper tattoo. The life-threatening tumour was discovered after Colin Reilly complained of ...

The 44-year-old is 5ft 10ins with short dark brown hair. He was wearing a black shirt, brown cargo shorts and white shoes. He has a distinctive tattoo on his upper left arm of the Grim Reaper.

Doctors saved a cancer-stricken man's life by reconstructing his throat - using skin covered in a Grim Reaper tattoo. The life-threatening tumour was discovered after Colin Reilly complained of ...

Doctors saved a cancer-stricken man's life by reconstructing his throat - using skin covered in a Grim Reaper tattoo. The life-threatening tumour was discovered after Colin Reilly complained of ...

A grim reaper tattoo saw an unlikely twist of fate, after ironically it was used to save a man’s life. Colin Reilly, 50, was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumour in his throat in 2020 ...

Colin Reilly, 50, was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumour in his throat in 2020 following months of neck pain. Skin featuring his grim reaper tattoo was eventually used to reconstruct his neck.