A rare operation: Doctors turn their heads to remove the tumor, the patient plays the clarinet

The Neurosurgy Department, led by Michele Alessandro Cavalo, is an international reference point for interventions involving smart patients rather than anesthesia.

In the case of brain tumors, neurosurgic intent is twofold: the largest removal of possible mass and the downing of possible brain damage caused by surgery.

There are tools to monitor motor functions, but not sensitive ones, and intervention can be performed by surgery awake with motor operating intraoperator monitoring thanks to the record of <x0).

The fact that the patient is a professional musician has created opportunities to try to preserve, with positive results and sensitivity. The patient, coming from another region, had experienced a sudden seizure of seizure.

Controls confirmed that the cause was a tumor located in the right sensitive area of the brain, the same area from which the perception of the right hand and left - arm sensitivity comes, writes La Repubblica.

The patient plays in the clarinets, an instrument that requires quick movement, precision and almost automatic fingerprints (the action of a musician is always determined and modified by the perception of instrument components, such as guitar cords, keys to the piano, holes, and keys to the clarinet).

So, for the first time in Italy, with the proposal of neurosurgeon Pasquale De Bonis and Neurodrozia Director Michele Alessandro Cavalo, decided to intervene by removing neoplasis while the patient whose availability was essential, he played in the clarinet. By stimulating specific cerebral stages, complex sense disorders have been caused.

The same patient could show that he was unable to direct his left hand fingers for the transitional transition of sensitivity, broadcast BW.

Songplay errors enabled neurosurgeons to follow up on surgery with de Borders, avoiding even the most minimal risk of damage.

Intervention has lasted four hours, half of which with the patient awake. The images of magnetic resonance after surgery showed the optimum removal of neoplasm.

The patient, who left the hospital after a few days, has been sending to doctors in the Department who operated on a video showing that he plays parts of classical music with perfection.