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Drill removed from worker's brain
By Cai Wenjun |
January 22, 2009, Thursday
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A WORKER is recovering in hospital after doctors removed a 28-centimeter drill bit from his brain.
Dai Longquan, a 19-year-old Jiangxi Province native, had been in Shanghai for just a week when the accident happened. He had been adjusting a drill when the bit shot into his right eye socket and ended up 18 centimeters into his brain.
Doctors at Renji Hospital said yesterday that they expected him to make a full recovery after 6 to 12 months' rehabilitation.
Two weeks after surgery, Dai had already regained proper function on his left side and was talking to doctors.
The accident happened on December 31 last year. Wang Yu, doctor of the hospital's neurosugery department, said: "The patient was in critical condition when he arrived at our emergency department. The steel drill bit was 28 centimeters long. We could see 10 centimeters outside the right eye, which meant 18 centimeters was in the brain. He had lost control of his left limbs and was lapsing into a coma."
Checks also showed that the top three centimeters of the bit had been bent into a right angle.
Doctors made two small openings on each side of the brain and during a five-hour operation successfully removed the bit and also managed to save his eye.
Dai Longquan, a 19-year-old Jiangxi Province native, had been in Shanghai for just a week when the accident happened. He had been adjusting a drill when the bit shot into his right eye socket and ended up 18 centimeters into his brain.
Doctors at Renji Hospital said yesterday that they expected him to make a full recovery after 6 to 12 months' rehabilitation.
Two weeks after surgery, Dai had already regained proper function on his left side and was talking to doctors.
The accident happened on December 31 last year. Wang Yu, doctor of the hospital's neurosugery department, said: "The patient was in critical condition when he arrived at our emergency department. The steel drill bit was 28 centimeters long. We could see 10 centimeters outside the right eye, which meant 18 centimeters was in the brain. He had lost control of his left limbs and was lapsing into a coma."
Checks also showed that the top three centimeters of the bit had been bent into a right angle.
Doctors made two small openings on each side of the brain and during a five-hour operation successfully removed the bit and also managed to save his eye.
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