Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 371 Withdrawal of a Transfer Application

"Dear Dean, excuse me for being so presumptuous, but may I ask if the Lord has prepared any grace for his servants, even if it's just a glimmer of hope?" The doctor's silence made Benny more anxious, and he couldn't help but ask.

For a few seconds, Kraft gave up thinking.

The word "pituitary tumor" rolled around in my brain like a Sisyphus boulder. Anyone with a bit of common sense would know that under the current conditions, no matter what effort was made, even if it could temporarily relieve the symptoms, the final result would be in vain.

In short, this is a call from Heaven. The transfer process sheet has been issued. You can consider preparing Dominic's personal file in advance and burn it together when the time comes.

As for the young man who was unfortunately affected, if his condition developed in a similar way, Kraft could only consult Brother Raymond to see if he, as the abbot, had enough face to issue an indulgence as guarantor.

Rationally speaking, there is no point in making any more futile struggles.

But thinking about how hard it was to recruit people from the church, and how one of them was lost before they even started working, Field felt that he couldn't explain it to him. So couldn't he explain it to Green either?

Not to mention the next time we can recruit such high-quality talents, who knows when that will be.

Kraft tried to make one last effort, forcing himself to find a breakthrough outside the common sense system. After all, no matter how low the survival rate of a treatment plan is, it cannot be lower than zero.

If you think about it carefully, you will find that pituitary tumor surgery must have been available earlier than minimally invasive technology.

The disease concept of pituitary tumor appeared even earlier, originating from the autopsies of some patients with endocrine abnormalities and optic nerve compression.

The earliest surgery was born at the same time as the rise of X-ray imaging technology. Of course, X-rays cannot see the soft tissue inside the skull, so the diagnosis is made indirectly by observing the changes in the structure of the sella turcica bone compressed by the pituitary tumor.

At this point, if we don’t consider the misdiagnosis rate and surgical risks, we can actually start. If there is no technology that can bypass the dangerous area, then open surgery is the way to go.

If we regard the entire head as a sphere, divided into two parts by the base of the skull, the northern hemisphere is the cerebrum, the southern hemisphere is the maxillofacial area and the cerebellum and medulla oblongata, and the eyeball is on the equator, then the pituitary gland is probably behind the eyeball, at the junction of the mantle and core on the equatorial plane.

Open the third eye directly from the forehead, cut the dura mater, pull the frontal lobe brain tissue, which is the front third of the northern hemisphere, upward, and you can see the sella turcica in the center of the anterior skull base. If your hand shakes a little, the optic nerve is next to it, so be careful.

As for the risks of tinkering with the frontal lobe, another notorious surgery, the lobotomy, was being performed at the same time, so it would be reasonable to operate on the pituitary gland, right?
At this point, the most difficult step has just begun. The surgeon needs to carefully scrape away the tumor tissue and avoid damaging the normal pituitary gland. In theory, there should be a difference in the color of the two tissues, but the actual operation depends entirely on the surgeon's experience and feel.

If there is a slight misjudgment and a little more cutting is done, or blood vessels are damaged, the patient will soon see the gate of heaven or the cauldron of hell opening to him in his sleep.

The entire operation takes about four to six hours, which is not too long in neurosurgery, but it is performed without life monitoring, so it is difficult for the patient to survive.

Even if the patient survived, Kraft had never tried to maintain his mental senses for that long. But without mental senses, in a narrow, deep, and complex anatomical surgical field, he would have no control over what he cut.

His tools are no different from those used by the genius who performed the first pituitary tumor resection in history. The difference mainly lies in precision.

Perhaps the real-time and precise positioning brought by mental senses can make up for some of the gaps in tools and experience, but the question comes back again, how can he ensure that he maintains his mental senses throughout the operation.

The longest attempt in the past was less than one-tenth of six hours. Ignoring the side effects and pushing myself, I can definitely make it longer. But if I reach my limit early during the operation, there will definitely be no one else to save me.

The only hope is to optimize time. Leave the preoperative preparation to the anesthesia induction stage to the assistant, and try to conserve your energy as much as possible; the structure of the scalp, skull, and dura mater is not complicated and can be handled with the naked eye.

When it comes to pulling the frontal lobe, you have to rely on external methods. The cerebral cortex and white matter are too fragile. This area also concentrates the olfactory nerve and the supraorbital veins. It is a small minefield before the big minefield. It starts at 40 minutes.

The step of identifying and scraping off the tumor cannot be accelerated at all, and leaving it for an hour would be optimistic.

According to previous experience, it takes at least fifteen minutes to stop bleeding and replace the bone flap.

Kupp can do the finishing sutures, disinfection and bandaging. Even if the stitches are ugly, it won't be fatal.

Roughly calculated, even in the best case scenario, it would take at least two hours of high-intensity mental and sensory operation. Regardless of whether it was possible or not, this time was no different from killing him.

It would be quicker to hang someone than to do this. Suffocation to the point of losing consciousness only lasts for a short while, but there may not be any mental or sensory aftereffects.

We still have to squeeze in time, it’s best to shorten it to within an hour.

A pituitary tumor surgery with top-notch personnel and equipment could be completed within an hour, but it was unlikely that Kraft could complete a pituitary tumor surgery within an hour.

Just at this point, Sisyphus's rock rolled down from the top of the mountain again.

Not even close.

Kraft's stubbornness kicked in. A complete failure without hope was acceptable, but a failure that came up just short of success was intolerable.

Pituitary surgery is a typical slow and careful job. There is almost no room for improvement in manual skills. No matter how clear the structure is, the knife has to be operated bit by bit. The hands cannot be moved quickly.

Especially in the step of scraping off the tumor, mental senses can help define the boundaries of the diseased tissue, but human operating capabilities have limits.

[Unless you don’t use your hands]

There has to be an extremely quick way, preferably one that works in sync with the mental senses, and can appear at a specific location to complete the cutting without being restricted by the operating space.

It does not need to be used throughout the process, just one cut is enough. This cut is extremely precise, close to the limit of human spatial imagination, and must be sharp enough to ensure that no surrounding tissue is involved.

As long as there is such a thing, the spiritual senses can guide it to the critical position at the critical time, and Sisyphus's rock will be forever fixed at the moment it reaches the top of the mountain.

Does he have such a thing?
"Yes, my friend, of course." Kraft placed his hand on the patient's forehead. The deformed tumor was only a few centimeters away from his palm, but it seemed thousands of miles away and separated by mountains.

However, it is not out of reach.

"Please give me a little time to make the necessary preparations. The treatment will be tried first on Brother Dominic, and then on the child."

He wanted to withdraw a transfer application, even if it was signed and sealed by God.