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Balloon Helps Doctor Reach Brain Tumor

Posted by michael on from the coming-through dept.

Anml4ixoye writes "A neurosurgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has succesfully completed removal of a tumor in an previously thought inoperable part of the brain. The doctor, Kerry Crone expanded a balloon at the end of a cathader to push the neurons aside and remove the tumor, which was located at the thalamus. CNN is also running the story."

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  1. Much better method by spitzak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before now, these operations could only be done by miniaturizing a small submarine and 5-person crew and injecting them into the bloodstream, so that they could reach the clot and destroy it with a miniaturized industrial laser. This was an extremely expensive operation, and risky due to the fact that the miniaturization only lasted an hour.

  2. The Real Tragedy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's rather sad that this brilliant breakthrough in neural surgery has generated such a lackluster response on this forum. Absolutely no sense of acknowledgement of what a completely righteous hack this is to deal with a rather fatal problem.

    Quick, someone bring SCO up, I'm sure we can break the comments on this article up to at least low single digits instead of the twenty odd present.