Carnegie Mellon student participates in own brain surgery
Carnegie Mellon student participates in own brain surgery Follow Us Question of the Day PITTSBURGH (AP) - For someone just listening in, the conversation sounded almost like small talk. “Before Pittsburgh you lived in …?” “How do you say pizza in Chinese?” TOP STORIES “Did you eat a lot of that in Chicago?” But the conversation was anything but ordinary. Lingwei Cheng, 27, lay on an operating table last fall at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Multiple screens showed images of her brain under a microscope, with doctors nipping away around a mass of purplish blood vessels ...