Dagmar Turner, a 53-year-old violinist, she was operated on at King’s College Hospital in the UK for a brain tumor and its history has gone around the world due to a particular detail that took place during the surgical intervention. And it is that Turner faced the operation while playing his violin.
Turner suffered a seizure during an Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra concert and went to specialists for diagnosis as she was concerned about losing the ability to play the violin. King’s College experts found a tumor in the right frontal lobe of the brain, an area in charge of controlling the movements of the left hand.
To the violinist if the practed a complex type of intervention in which the patient remains conscious to check neurological activity during the operation. The medical team asked him to demonstrate his skills with the violin during the operation to check that the area in charge of his violin and hand movement skills was not being damaged.
The video in which the woman plays pieces of Gustav Mahler, among others, during his speech has gone viral on social networks and has been around the world. In addition, the famous operation was a success and the doctors managed to remove more than 90% of the violinist’s tumor.
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