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Will: you said something that was fascinating to me. it makes sense, traumatic brain injury shows up on brain imaging, you said ptsd as well, psychological impact as well can show up in a medical diagnosis with physical tools. >> you check out the greatest point. it is combined, posttraumatic stress and traumatic brain injury go together. we can now see posttraumatic stress on brain imagery and say you have something, it is not in your imagination and we can treat it. rachel: you don't have to be in combat to find those images. it can be from anything, not just combat. >> most important, getti...

In miami. i guess doctors had their hands full with this one but what was the biggest challenge, phil? >> reporter: well they had to go against their instinct because the first thing the doctors say they would want to do in a situation like that is grab that spear and pull it out the way it went in but they say actually that is almost always leading to a fatality or at least, a patient who then becomes a vegetable. now the biggest challenge of course was getting that spear out but the good thing for 16-year-old, yasir lopez was the brain imagery, the cat scans, showed that the spear, which is ...

They remove it? just an amazing feat on the part of these surgeons. >> reporter: incredibly delicate operation. first of all they had to transport him with a c clamp basically holding the spear in his skull securely. flew him by helicopter to the hospital. they had to use rebar cutters to shorten the spear to fit him inside the cat scan to get the brain imagery see exactly where all the major vessels are. fortunately the spear did not impact any of those. in other words the doctors say, had the spear had a brain of its own and picking where to go to do the least amount of damage, this was the ...