| Show BLOOD VESSEL CUT AWAY 1 Surgical Openlion for Removing the Superior Longitudinal Sinus I I Codltnn 1here that Imports At channel Cau be CutTioking a Tumor trf the Brain Oakland Cal Pen 12Ily an operation opera-tion performed by Dr I T Stratton nt the East Day Sanitarium Oakland It IKIB been demonstrated that a portion of the superior longitudinal sinus the main channel wheise function It Is I to carry away the blood circulating through the brain can be lemoved without causing death Among surgeons sur-geons the belief has prevailed that a laceration of the sinus Is I usually fatal The patient a woman was suffering from a tumor which was pressing dl lectly on the nerve centers 1 waa dls coveied that the growth had attached tache < Itself to the longitudinal sinus and could only be removed by cutting away a 10 lon of that organ After thI patient had been placed under the Influence of anesthetics two Incisions were made In the skull about au Inch slid a hul part and to the right of the sinus These were treplned und about mix square Incites or the skull wa cut away exposing the tumor On either side 1 of the tumrou Icowth clamps wee placed closing the blood channels and between I the clamps the surgeon used ithe knife 1 cutting away the tumor cINAmel and a portion or the membrane vNhich separates the two I hemispheres of the brain This completed com-pleted a plaster dressing was applied and the patient with the steel clamps still I In position was transferred from the opcintlng room to a private ward The opelatlon was performed on February 2nd and three das ago the clamps woe removed and an aluminum plate Inserted tu take the place of the kul hone removed nn < whie there lan i la-n slight edema Dr Stiatton believes his patient will recover i The Tilts Is I believed to ba the first or Tilt-s kind recorded I < < Rome ar the surgeons who he studied the case closely believe that the Inferior longitudinal sinus Is I performing perform-ing the functions of the closed superior |
