Why doctors may keep a patient awake for brain surgery

Friday, February 3, 2017 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

An article gives a rare look at brain surgery with the patient alert and awake. It's not routine to keep patients awake, but in this case, a small section of the tumor was in the area of the brain for speech function.

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