04-01-2018, 12:50 PM
A fight at a bar put a South African man in a situation where he had to fight for his life.
A man was stabbed in the head following a knife attack at a bar. A knife has been removed from the brain a man, Tshepiso Mothibi‚ in a five'-hour surgery conducted by doctors in Magogoe, South Africa.
The patient, aged 23, was reported stabbed on the head when a fight broke out at a bar he was having drinks at.
This happened on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, according to Times Live News, which added that the victim immediately rushed to the Tshepong Hospital for medical attention.
Knife removed from man's brain in 5 hour surgery.
CEO of the Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital Complex, Polaki Mokatsane, described the operation as a complicated one. The surgery took five hours to complete successfully. The patient underwent craniotomy to open a portion of the skull. The knife was carefully disengaged and withdrawn from the brain in a controlled manner, without causing internal bleeding or injury to the structures of the brain.
"This patient was very lucky. Had the object cut through the major internal carotid arteries or injured the brain stem‚ he could have lost his life," says Mokatsane.
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A man was stabbed in the head following a knife attack at a bar. A knife has been removed from the brain a man, Tshepiso Mothibi‚ in a five'-hour surgery conducted by doctors in Magogoe, South Africa.
The patient, aged 23, was reported stabbed on the head when a fight broke out at a bar he was having drinks at.
This happened on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, according to Times Live News, which added that the victim immediately rushed to the Tshepong Hospital for medical attention.
Knife removed from man's brain in 5 hour surgery.
CEO of the Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital Complex, Polaki Mokatsane, described the operation as a complicated one. The surgery took five hours to complete successfully. The patient underwent craniotomy to open a portion of the skull. The knife was carefully disengaged and withdrawn from the brain in a controlled manner, without causing internal bleeding or injury to the structures of the brain.
"This patient was very lucky. Had the object cut through the major internal carotid arteries or injured the brain stem‚ he could have lost his life," says Mokatsane.
Source instablo9ja