"Violinist plays during brain operation as surgeons test her dexterity
LONDON: A violinist helped surgeons avoid damage to her brain during surgery to remove a tumour by playing her instrument, the UK hospital where she underwent the innovative procedure said.
Surgeons came up with the novel approach to ensure that areas of Dagmar Turner's brain responsible for intricate hand movements were not affected during the precision procedure.
"We perform around 400 resections (tumour removals) each year, which often involves rousing patients to carry out language tests, but this was the first time I've had a patient play an instrument," Ashkan, the lead surgeon, said in a hospital statement on Tuesday.
"We managed to remove over 90 per cent of the tumour, including all the areas suspicious of aggressive activity, while retaining full function in her left hand," he added.
Turner said the "thought of losing my ability to play was heartbreaking".
"Ashkan ... and the team at King's went out of their way to plan the operation - from mapping my brain to planning the position I needed to be in to play."
This is SIMPLY remarkable though fr the descriptions given by the lead surgeon, it seems this waking the patient up to ensure there r no untoward damages to their speech is something they do quite often during brain surgery!!
Amazing how brain surgery has come so far! Truly incredible! May surgeons ard the world r able to learn, apply n master the same excellent surgical skills to benefit the patients in every country!!
Glad they didn't ask the patient to smoke during surgery!!
Well done UK, when Brexit thrown u to the bottom of the worst pit, this successful brain surgery gained some dignity n respect back! Yes?
LONDON: A violinist helped surgeons avoid damage to her brain during surgery to remove a tumour by playing her instrument, the UK hospital where she underwent the innovative procedure said.
Surgeons came up with the novel approach to ensure that areas of Dagmar Turner's brain responsible for intricate hand movements were not affected during the precision procedure.
"We perform around 400 resections (tumour removals) each year, which often involves rousing patients to carry out language tests, but this was the first time I've had a patient play an instrument," Ashkan, the lead surgeon, said in a hospital statement on Tuesday.
"We managed to remove over 90 per cent of the tumour, including all the areas suspicious of aggressive activity, while retaining full function in her left hand," he added.
Turner said the "thought of losing my ability to play was heartbreaking".
"Ashkan ... and the team at King's went out of their way to plan the operation - from mapping my brain to planning the position I needed to be in to play."
This is SIMPLY remarkable though fr the descriptions given by the lead surgeon, it seems this waking the patient up to ensure there r no untoward damages to their speech is something they do quite often during brain surgery!!
Amazing how brain surgery has come so far! Truly incredible! May surgeons ard the world r able to learn, apply n master the same excellent surgical skills to benefit the patients in every country!!
Glad they didn't ask the patient to smoke during surgery!!
Well done UK, when Brexit thrown u to the bottom of the worst pit, this successful brain surgery gained some dignity n respect back! Yes?
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