OPERATION ON BRAIN
Boy Can Now Walk
(N.Z. Frets Assn. —Copi/ripht? FRESNO (California),
November 30.
A hemispherectomy the surgical removal of half the human brain—has left almost normal a nine-year-old boy who suffered from a large tumour for several years. Three neurosurgeons at Fresno’s Valley Children’s Hospital worked eight and a half hours to perform the operation—which they had never done before—on Tony Saias, of Porterville, California.
“There are only about 15 cases such as this reported in a year,” said one of the doctors.
Before the operation Tony suffered painful headaches, impaired vision and could not walk by himself because of a 50 to 75 per cent paralysis of his left arm and leg. When he left the hospital he limped out under his own power and now walks with the aid of a stick.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 24
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