(ANSA) - Ancona, June 9 - A 60-year-old Abruzzo woman cooked
90 Ascoli-style olives au gratin in less than an hour while
having an operation to remove a brain tumour in an Ancona
hospital Tuesday.
"It all went very well," neurosurgeon Roberto Trignani told
ANSA after the two and a half hour procedure.
The tumour was removed from her left temporal lobe, the area
of the brain that controls language as well as movements of he
right side of the body.
Trignani has performed some 60 operations over the last five
years with patients conscious and engaged in other activities,
"a method that enables us to monitor the patient while we are
intervening on brain functions and to calibrate our action".
Woman cooks olives while having brain op (5)
Tumour removed from part of brain that controls language