Patient plays saxophone during surgery to remove brain tumor in Italian hospital

A patient undergoing more than nine hours of complex brain surgery was playing the saxophone at a hospital in Rome, Italy, the hospital said. completely resected a 35-year-old patient’s brain tumor while the patient was awake, with no loss of neurologic function. The team was led by Dr. Christian Bronya, an international expert in complex cancer surgery and ‘awake surgery’. “The awake surgery allows us to work with great precision on the neural networks that underlie various brain functions such as playing, speaking and moving,” Brogna said in a press release from the hospital while preserving patients’ quality of life. can be mapped to , during surgery, he explained. Credit: Paideia Hospital via Storyful