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| A handout picture released by the Angers university hospital shows a patient wearing virtual reality glasses on February 16, 2016 during his brain operation at a university hospital in Angers, western France. © Chu Angers et ESIEA / AFP |
Surgeons have made
history in France, removing a cancerous brain tumor from a conscious patient
wearing 3D virtual reality glasses. Placing the patient in an “artificial
world” allowed the doctors to easily test parts of the brain during the
operation.
