Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy was compounded by the fact that once X rays and arteriograms had confirmed their diagnosis, the doctors were stumped. Bold brain surgeons have been probing and cutting deeper and deeper inside the human skull, but the floor of the brain box, where the patient's tumor was growing, has remained virtually inviolate. Nerves, arteries and other vital parts of the anatomy are all crammed into that small central sanctuary behind the nose and mouth. There they rise through openings in the floor of the skull and reach toward the brain above (see diagram). So complex is the collection...
Atlas of Anatomy. The surgeons needed free access to the patient's neck region, so they cut a hole into his windpipe and inserted a tube through which he got all later anesthesia. They clamped his jaws tightly shut and fastened his head in a frame to hold it at an unnatural angle-at first, 15° backward and 20° to the left. They made a long incision from below his ear around past the windpipe. At last, U.C.'s Dr. Roland K. Perkins and Dr. Ronald J. Stoney could start moving closer to the target...
Some of it was soft enough to be removed by suction, but parts of it had to be cut away. As more and more was removed, the surgeons could see the basilar artery straightening out. They could realize the release of crippling pressure on the patient's nerves. The window in the clivus was sealed with a piece of the patient's own muscle, and the tedious job of putting his delicate structures back in place began. The whole operation took eleven hours...
Back to Work. For a week the patient was immobilized with sand bags to promote healing. By then the nerves and muscles on his right side were already improving, and within a month he had full use of his right arm. Last week he was back at work...
...were a patient man, he'd still be waiting. After all, the Astros only hit 70 home runs last year, and in the new ballpark it was all they could do just to get the ball out of the infield. Finally, in the eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz...