Surgery Godfather
Chapter 682 - 609 What is that look in your eyes_2

Chapter 682: Chapter 609 What is that look in your eyes_2

After the bone cutting site fused, the entire spine achieved stability on its own, only then could the support be removed.

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Each surgery is like a magic show.

A dozen or so of Germany’s orthopedic experts, watched as the Chinese professor successfully performed a seemingly impossible surgery.

The difficulties and dangers everyone worried about beforehand were nonexistent.

It’s like a magician being tied up and sunk underwater, the audience holding their breath, fearing that they would witness the magician fail to escape and drown.

However, the magician does manage to escape, with the audience left in suspense, while they remain composed.

If the surgery had been completed amid many setbacks and difficulties, everyone would have been able to accept it. Yet, it was finished smoothly and without ripples.

They were left feeling hollow, after more than ten years of hard work, discussions, and waiting; the issue had been resolved in just over two hours.

There’s definitely no issue with the orthopedic correction, it has exceeded expectations - it could be considered perfect. Now, the concern would be the sensation and muscle strength in the limbs, and whether there is spinal cord damage.

Whether it’s Professor William, Professor Lloyd, Professor Rambo, or any other professors.

They all felt a sense of emptiness. For many years, they had often gathered to discuss the Duke’s condition, and they gathered today, expecting to experience an earth-shattering, epoch-making surgery.

But nothing happened. It was as routine as their everyday surgeries, plain and uneventful.

"Shall we return to the ward?"

Professor Lloyd suggested, everyone’s heads were still buzzing. Truth be told, because the patient was in a lateral position, the camera’s view of the surgical area wasn’t great, and they didn’t get a clear view of how the surgery was completed.

Additionally, when the thoracoscopy and laparoscopy were performed to decompress the bone cutting area, the anatomy under the scope was different from what they usually knew, and all they could see was a vast area obscured by various tissues.

When performing minimally invasive surgery under the microscope, if bleeding causes the lens to only see red, it’s called a "red blindness".

This situation with no operating space and surrounded by unknown tissues obstructing the view is sometimes referred to as white blindness.

In short, the experts didn’t fully understand the whole process, they only saw the electric knife and ultrasonic bone knife operating inside, but they didn’t know what the target was or what was being done in detail.

If the experts present were to do it, even if their laparoscopic skills were very proficient, they would have difficulty completing the operation just witnessed.

As Professor Yang moved back and forth in front of and behind the patient, adjusting the spine after bone-cutting, no one understood how this was done. This kind of adjustment is very demanding on the chief surgeon’s senses, especially spatial imagination. With so many screws, they can’t just tighten all the screws in order. Instead, the screws are gradually tightened a little bit at a time, in a particular sequence. This isn’t done randomly. In this way, while the adjustment is successful, all the screws are tightened.

The technical details of this surgery, like Microsoft’s windows system, seem simple on the surface, just graphical operation. But behind this simplicity lays the combination of tens of millions, if not billions of lines of programming language.

"The patient’s postoperative limb sensation and muscle strength are normal, and the patient has already been sent back to the ward!"

Professor William reported the latest information obtained.

That indicates that the surgery has been successful. Whether there will be spinal cord and nerve injuries in the second phase remains to be seen, but at least for now, it is successful.

No one else present could achieve what has been done at this point.

Correcting the spiral spine, several bone cuts were fully cut, and then the vertebrae were rotated along the axis to correct the axial rotation deformity. This is the most dangerous procedure and the step that has stumped all the doctors.

Usually, for scoliosis correction, whether it’s the left-right curvature of idiopathic scoliosis or the anterior-posterior folding of ankylosing spondylitis, the correction mainly occurs within a single plane. Even if there are operations within a three-dimensional space, they are minor.

Only in the case of a full cut, for rotation and alignment, does it become most terrifying.

Like a casual walk around the neighborhood, it is incomparable to a real marathon.

"In just over two hours, in a mere two hours, he has solved a problem we haven’t been able to resolve for more than ten years." Professor Lloyd laughed bitterly.

Professor William didn’t say anything.

Professor Rambo looked unhappy. He blamed Lloyd inwardly, there was no need to keep bringing up the obvious, what everyone already knew.

"August must have known this Chinese professor for a while. They’ve probably been collaborating in secret for many years because of some reason." Professor William speculated.

Back when he was at Charité Hospital, August completed his specialist training under William. Now recognizing another as his mentor, William did feel a bit discomfited.

But the Germans don’t take these personal matters to heart, and it wasn’t a big deal - this pang of jealousy was fleeting.

"I checked. This Chinese professor’s papers are concentrated in the past year, which means he isn’t as old as we thought." Lloyd always wanted to figure out the person’s age.

Just like how Chinese people are inaccurate in judging the age of foreigners based on their appearance, foreigners are also inaccurate in judging the age of the Chinese.

Regardless, he should be in his forties, right?

Him achieving so much in his forties is already exceptional.

Professor Lloyd speculated.

"What about Manstein? Any contact?"

Professor William asked.

Manstein has a good relationship with Lloyd and they usually stay in touch.

"No, I heard he is on vacation in Iceland. I wonder what his reaction would be when he returns and hears that the Duke has successfully had surgery?"

"I don’t know. He is an imaginative character, always surprising others. This time, let’s give him a surprise."