Nail removed from American’s brain
January 22nd, 2012 - 3:02 am ICT by IANSLondon, Jan 21 (IANS) A nail has been removed from an American man’s brain which he hadn’t known was there, The Telegraph reported Saturday.
Chicago’s Dante Autullo was recovering after undergoing surgery Friday at the Advocate Christ Medical Centre in Oak Lawn.
Autullo thought his doctors were joking, and that he had merely cut himself with a nail gun while building a shed. The 3.75-inch nail was lodged in the middle of his brain.
The nail had come within millimeters of the part of the brain that controls motor function.
The surgery took two hours, and the part of the skull that was removed for surgery was replaced with a titanium mesh, said Mike Maggio, a hospital spokesman.
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