The cracks on both sides of the vertebra are complete, and there seems to be no problem in taking it out.
However, the pre-operative CT scan indicated that the tumor not only destroyed the bone but was also suspected to be associated with the spinal cord, seemingly growing together with the dura mater, prompting the doctors to be cautious. They might need to slowly separate the tumor from the dura mater.
With this in mind, everyone’s eyes once again turned to the hands of the chief surgeon, quietly waiting for the chief surgeon to continue.
Chang Jiawei kept his hand holding the scalpel in the sa position, as if still unable to recover from the shock of that previous touch.
What is the chief surgeon doing, what is he considering? Others wondered.
After a while, Chang Jiawei suddenly decided to put down the scalpel and switched tools, taking hold of a dislodged piece of bone and slowly pulling it out.
Everyone seed startled by his actions. He actually thought he could extract the bone without worrying that it might take the dura mater growing together with it, causing bleeding or other complications.
Their hearts pounded in their chests.
After a while longer, they saw Chang Jiawei successfully remove two pieces of bone from the patient’s body, without any unexpected hindrance occurring.
Now everyone understood, the chief surgeon, being the closest, saw most clearly. It wasn’t that the chief surgeon’s skills with the forceps were impressive, but that the previous incision had conveniently detached the dura mater from the bone with the tumor.
Upon examination, after extracting the bone, the spinal cord was unhard and decompressing. The bone with the tumor was previously pressing on the spinal cord, causing the patient’s symptoms.
With the completion of the crucial first step, it was as if everyone needed to calm their hearts after a rollercoaster movie-like plot. Suddenly, soone let out a low exclamation. Upon closer listening, it turned out the nurse had mumbled after seeing sothing.
"So many people."
The nurse’s original words reached Doctor Liu’s ears. Doctor Liu wondered where so many people had co from, considering there were only a few of them performing the surgery today. After the nurse privately pointed out the direction, Doctor Liu turned his head and lifted his gaze, and this ti, his eyes focused on other things, suddenly seeing a crowd of faces in his view.
The sudden surge of visual impact filled his mind with an obvious result; Doctor Liu nearly sank back to the ground in shock.
The operating room nurse, who regularly helps the surgeons clear the room of too many people and control numbers, might be more accustod to such scenes and wasn’t startled. Doctor Liu, on the other hand, was shocked into a pounding heart by the dense mass of faces in front of him.
It was enough to scare him to death.
It wasn’t just that there were so many people, but that the operating room had unexpectedly beco overcrowded. Unlike usual when most of them were dical students, this ti among the visitors were not many dical students, and so familiar teachers’ faces stood out.
This... this... this?
Doctor Liu’s overly stunned expression simultaneously made Cao Yong and Ren Chongda doubtful: What happened? How could this guy be so scared just by seeing them? It shouldn’t be like this.
"No, that’s not right." Ren Chongda suddenly realized that Doctor Liu’s gaze wasn’t only focused on them.
Following Doctor Liu’s line of sight, he turned his head.
Wow, a sea of people, when did a bunch of people manage to stand behind them, squeezing into a dense thicket, vividly enacting the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind scenario.
Ren Chongda, caught off guard, questioned the crowd of suddenly appearing faces: "Why didn’t you make a sound?"
Don’t you know that silently watching like this is reminiscent of a zombie horror movie, capable of scaring soone into cardiac arrest?
The group, upon hearing this criticism, retorted by asking back: "Why didn’t you say you guys weren’t making a sound yourselves?"
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