And now what we're going to have a look at, and the next thing which is always so interesting to me, Dr. Jallo, who's doing the operation together with me, we work together, will give you an idea of how we diagnose these tumors. You'll see the MRI scans. You will see how tumors are so beautifully diagnosed through this technology. Technology that, 10 or 15 years ago—20 years ago, would have seemed like a complete fantasy.
GEORGE JALLO, MD: Hello, I'm Dr. George Jallo, pediatric neurosurgeon here at Beth Israel Medical Center. What we have here this morning are the MRIs that were done on our patient prior to surgery. He has a tumor in his posterior fascia, which is very common in children, and especially in his age group. He's an 11 year old boy.
On the MRIs that were done this morning, we have three different images in different planes. You have a coronal, sagittal and axial images, all with contrast. You see this tumor that's bright, that's enhancing, probably measure about two centimeters, maybe a centimeter and a half. And then around it is a cyst, it's a fluid filled cavity that's usually associated with the tumor. And you can see that the brain has shifted to the left.
If you look at it on the sagittal—again, here it is—the back of the brain here, in the cerebellum there's this enhancing tumor that we can see. And then the associated cyst with it.
