I'm like 80% sure this manga, Franken Fran, was inspired by Black Jack, but leans much more into the body horror angle which Black Jack mostly abandoned after the early chapters.
This chapter seems like a similar idea to the face sore chapter in Black Jack.
Worth noting that the Black Jack TV anime came out in 2004 and ran until 2006, and this manga started in 2006, so Black Jack was definitely in the public consciousness at the time.
Franken Fran was also published in a sister magazine (Champion Red) to the magazine Black Jack was published in (Weekly Shounen Champion)
