As surgeons in London worked to remove a woman's brain tumor, the sound of a violin filled the operating room. The music came from the patient on the operating table.
As doctors in London performed surgery on Dagmar Turner's brain, the sound of a violin filled the operating room.from the surgery, the violinist moves her bow up and down as surgeons behind a plastic sheet work to remove her brain tumor.
"We knew how important the violin is to Dagmar, so it was vital that we preserved function in the delicate areas of her brain that allowed her to play," Keyoumars Ashkan, a neurosurgeon at King's College Hospital,Turner, 53, learned that she had a slow-growing tumor in 2013. Late last year, doctors found that it had become more aggressive and the violinist decided to have surgery to remove it.
Ashkan, an accomplished pianist, and his colleagues came up with a plan to keep the hand's functions intact.
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