I’ve been watching Grey’s Anatomy (I know) and I’m curious- I know that you have to move around the ‘important parts’ to access a tumor if you’re able to even operate at all. But, how is any part of the brain ‘not important’? Meaning, how are surgeons able to touch and manipulate parts of the brain without it 1) turning into mush 2) being damaged and affected permanently ? Thank you and sorry if this is a dumb question, Grey’s has me real into this.
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Ive seen a few sinus operations done by ENT docs (sinusses are in your skull close to your brain) and what also helps the surgeons is that they make a brain scan before the surgery and they can use it as a interactive map during the surgery to know where their equipment is located.
In neurosurgery they can use MRI ‘neuronavigation’ even during the operation itself. Tumor tissue can look very similar to normal brain tissue but looks more different on scans, so very useful 🙂
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