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Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by jac241 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:01AM (#33214912)
You electrically stimulate around the spot with a probe where you’re planning to resect. If the patient can’t perform whatever task you’re evaluating then you know you can’t resect in that area. Generally looking for a 1cm margin between tissue you’re going to resect and a positive stim site.

Can’t undo brain cuts. CNS neurons don’t repair themselves like peripheral neurons or your skin. Generally not cutting glioma brain tumors out per se more likely to use ultrasonic aspiration to suck the tumor out piecemeal. Depends on the tumor though.

Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by SeanAnderson on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:28AM (#33215148)
Oh, that makes sense. Cool that we can "dry run" explore with electric pulses! Thanks for explaining :)
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by infogulch on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:07AM (#33215479)
"dry run" is a great analogy!
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by elteto on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:45AM (#33215278)
Fascinating! What is ultrasonic aspiration and how does it work?
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by amelius on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:48AM (#33215817)
How do you know what task to evaluate?

And what if this was not a saxophone player, but a tennis player? Or both?

Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by Firmwarrior on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:52AM (#33215855)
The worst is when you're performing brain surgery on a brain surgeon. The operating theater can get really crowded.
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by cfu28 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:03PM (#33217594)
Operating theater overflow :)
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by guynamedloren on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:06AM (#33220949)
Okay, this was a good one!
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by rurban on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:18AM (#33223015)
With our brain surgery robot the brain surgeon can definitely perform brain surgery on himself. Or invite a fellow brain surgeon over the phone, well a tablet might work better. Or better VR 3d glasses.
Re:Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surg... by ayewo on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:53AM (#33215866)
You seem knowledgeable about the topic.

I'm also curious as to the answer to this question [1]. Why does left-handedness make brain surgery slightly more complicated?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215614