Chapter 353 - A Surgery So Successful That Sends Chills Down The Spine (2/2)

How difficult could a lumbar artery embolization be?

If there were no available interventional doctors, Professor Tian could just put on the lead ap.r.o.n and perform the lumbar artery embolization surgery himself.

However, no matter who did the surgery, they could only reduce the bleeding from 5 liters to 2-3 liters.

Professor Tian had never seen a volume lower than that.

Was there a better doctor in Sea City than Imperial Capital?

Impossible, definitely impossible.

Professor Tian’s mind was wondering about all these things but his hands continued working.

After performing the same surgery for so many times, he could do it even with his eyes closed. At least he would not need to repeatedly recall the topographic anatomy during his first surgery.

He used the nerve dissector to search for the nerve roots from both sides of the dural sac for protection.

After that, Professor Tian started to dissect the tumor, dura mater, and lateral nerve roots. He then removed the tumor together with the surrounding vertebral arch, superior and inferior articular processes.

This particular step was the reason they performed the lumbar artery embolization prior to the vertebral resection surgery.

Life-threatening hemorrhage would occur without the embolizations.

What life-threatening hemorrhage meant?

Bleeding of unnoticeable tiny blood vessels that would drown the surgical field in red, making it impossible to find the ruptured vessel, not to mention continuing with the vertebral resection surgery.

It was good that there was no life-threatening hemorrhage.

Not only there was no life-threatening hemorrhage, there was no bleeding at all!

Of course, to say that there was no bleeding at all would be an exaggeration.

Nonetheless, the uncovered aspirator Dr. Zhou was holding was able to suction the blood cleanly, providing a great exposure of the surgical field. The exposure was so clear that Professor Tian was a little fl.u.s.tered.

This was not the vertebral resection surgery that he was familiar with…

Did he do something wrong?

He stopped and retraced the entire surgical procedure. There was nothing wrong!

He stared at the surgical field, the anatomical structures were so clear that they could be reference pictures in textbooks.

What the h.e.l.l was going on?

Who knew that surgery this successful would be a problem.

Professor Tian was quite worried. He had never seen a surgical in such a condition since he first started out on vertebral resection surgery.

If he was in Imperial Capital, he would have asked a few of his colleagues or even his mentor to observe the surgery and check for mistakes.

But this was Sea City.

He had no choice but to continue.

The exposure and resection of the lumbar transverse process were carried out smoothly. There was still very little bleeding. Usually, it would take 30 minutes to reach this step and the bleeding volume would be around 500 mL.

This was from Professor Tian’s experience.

However, in this freaking surgery, it only took him 15 minutes with 30 to 50 mL of blood loss to complete this step.

After that, Professor Tian began to expose the anterolateral vertebra. The vertebra that was invaded by the tumor was moderately enlarged, but the tumor boundary was very distinctive. It could be removed by gently peeling the surrounding tissues.

Normally, this step would bleed around 200 to 300 mL of blood and time of…

Oddly, the surgery was still smooth sailing, with only 10 percent of the usual blood loss. Judging from Dr. Zhou’s aspirator, it would be safe to say that there was 20 to 30 mL of blood loss.

After Professor Tian dissected from the diseased vertebra all the way until the anterior longitudinal ligament and let Dr. Zhou retract the surrounding tissues with the Hohman retractor, the anterolateral pathway of the vertebra could be seen.

The surgery was… too successful. It went so smoothly that it made people anxious and fearful.

Was this a vertebral resection surgery?

How could the patient bleed so little? How could the surgery be this successful?

…Freaking h.e.l.l!

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