Chapter 1796 Repairing Bones? Let the Necromancer Simulate It First! (Monthly Ticket Adds 3 Updates)
The power of the Half-Step Legend really exceeded Gretel's estimation.
Five tons of resistance is not enough!
Obviously, Mingming had let Guterres try this thing before, making him squeeze it between his fists, push it against the wall, and even step on it with his feet.
However, after exerting such great force, the sternum expander still held up firmly without any deformation. However, when it came time to use it, it actually creaked and began to deform!
Half-step legend, even if he is anesthetized, even if he loses consciousness, his body will react instinctively, struggle instinctively, and contract his muscles powerfully, trying to push back the sternum expander and return the sternum to its original position!
Grete's face also deformed. Although he didn't understand the mechanical structure very well, he also knew that if the spreader was crushed, the protruding parts at both ends would definitely penetrate the flesh.
The clavicle, neck, aorta, and trachea above; and the diaphragm, stomach, and liver below. No matter which one is damaged, it will be extremely troublesome. Moreover, are there no blood vessels in the muscle layer?
Of course there are, and there are quite a lot of them. Before Grete opened the pectoralis major muscle just now, he had tied off several blood vessels!
"Quick! Reinforce! Reinforce!!!"
He cried out instinctively. Elder Knox stepped forward, and a handful of seeds fell from his hand. They were densely packed and clung to a section of the spreader, and then tried their best to grow forward. The thin grass stems hit the other end and stretched out with all their strength.
At the same time, a healer from the Conjuration Department followed suit. In the low sound of the spell, the invisible and qualityless magic power first attached to the expander, adding a layer of strength to it, just like the [Sharpness] adds strength and sharpness to the weapon;
Immediately afterwards, the force field surged up and filled the expander. The necromancer was also very busy, shooting out more than ten high-level debilitating rays in succession, and the energy-absorbing spell was also ready to go:
Can you hold it?
If you can't hold on, you'll have to weaken the patient a little more!
Fortunately, with the coordinated efforts of these parties, the anesthetized patient finally calmed down, and his muscles no longer contracted and exerted force in waves.
Everyone waited patiently for a while, watching the sternum expander no longer deform, and nodded to each other. Elder Knox began to retract the grass stems one by one.
After finishing harvesting the grass stems, the conjuration magician carefully moved away the force field to make room for Gretel to perform surgery - whether it was a scalpel or a hemostatic forceps, there had to be a place where it could go down!
This kind of unexpected thing happened at the beginning of the operation. Not to mention Grete's high spirits, even several other healers were a little trepidatious.
After all, he had never operated on such a strong person before. Even for treatments, most of them are based on spells, and there are also legendaries, or even more than one legend...
"Cut the breathing of the right lung! Deflate the right lung!" Grete gave the order while explaining to the people around him:
"During the process of breathing, the lungs bulge and deflate. It is difficult to find the correct position for surgery. It is likely to go to the wrong place at once. So you need to let it calm down first before cutting."
"Previous examination results showed that the tumor is located in the lower lobe of the right lung. Leon, how many lung segments are there in the lower lobe of the right lung?"
"Ah? Five lung segments!" Leon Carlos was shocked when the teacher suddenly called him for random inspection. Fortunately, he had solid basic skills and could memorize it immediately:
"Dorsal segment, medial basal segment, anterior basal segment, lateral basal segment, and posterior basal segment!"
"Okay - come, look, which lung segment is here?"
He stretched out his hand and a ray of red light fell, shining on the piled-up, deflated right lung. Leon Carlos stretched his neck desperately, even moved his steps, to look carefully, and at the same time compared with the anatomical structure on his back.
God knows, the difference between the lungs taken off the back and the lungs seen during the operation is huge! Why is surgery so troublesome? Why is there such a big gap between what I see during surgery and what I see in books?
He calmed down, tried to sort out his thoughts, and followed the teacher with his finger. Yellow, white, blue, pink, patches of colors are spread on the lungs:
The wizard's trick, this magic, is perfect for coloring various parts and distinguishing surgical sites. It is light, flexible, not easy to get infected, and can be easily corrected if applied incorrectly.
As a magician, he also has another advantage, which is to directly use mental power to detect. It is much more convenient to mentally count down the main trachea of the right lung one by one, and count the bronchi one by one to find out which one is which:
"This is the upper lobe of the right lung, this is the middle lobe, and this is the lower lobe... Then, based on the direction and position, this should be the dorsal segment, and this is the inner basal segment..."
Grete smiled and nodded. During the operation, it is common for the teacher to suddenly check the students' learning status. If they fail to answer the question or answer it incorrectly, they will often be scolded by the teacher or even expelled from the operating room, and they will not be allowed to follow the surgery next time.
Fortunately, Leon Carlos answered well. Gretel simply waved to him:
"Come on, go ahead and mark the positions of the blood vessels and trachea. With the marks, it will be much more convenient during the operation - you have to be careful here, and the cutting should be slow and steady. The blood vessels eroded by cancer cells are very Fragile……"
Before he finished speaking, a cloud of blood shot out, instantly covering Grete's head, face, and even his entire upper body - of course, it didn't reach him, as it was blocked by the shield outside his body, but the amount of bleeding was already there. It triggered a burst of exclamations:
This amount of blood, if placed on a normal person, would be almost one-third of a person's total body bleeding! Even if it is placed on a frost giant, such a large amount of bleeding is very dangerous!
At the same time, the physical signs monitoring spell also started to scream like beep, beep, beep!
Grete, however, was not in a hurry. With a wave of his hand, a mage's hand condensed into a hemostat, and Void appeared, clamping the blood vessel, followed by a healing spell.
As the white light passed by, the blood column immediately stopped, and a cleaning technique was used. The blood that had been sprayed out swirled and fell into the empty bucket under the operating table. Gretel explained calmly:
"Even if the blood vessel is broken, don't be afraid. The most taboo thing on the operating table is panic - the largest blood vessel in the lungs is the pulmonary artery, and the blood volume of the pulmonary artery is completely incomparable to that of the aorta.
Immediately clamp the pulmonary artery, block the blood flow, and use therapeutic techniques to seal the blood vessels. It's too late! Don't be afraid! "
In fact, even if there is no treatment, it is still possible to apply pressure with gauze and suture immediately. Grete always remembers that on the day he was promoted to deputy director, his colleague who was promoted to deputy director happily told him that he had undergone a lung cancer operation:
"The pulmonary artery was ruptured, and the blood rushed out on the spot! Fortunately, I reacted quickly! I pressed it down with my fingers! Even gauze could not be used! Don't rush to sew at this time. If the pressure is too much, it will come out of the needle hole. It came out so fast!"
Only with the path blazed by our predecessors can our descendants be able to do so with ease. As Grete explained, he carefully removed the lung segment containing the tumor.
According to the principles of lung cancer surgery, he should have removed the entire lung lobe - whichever lobe had the tumor, all of which lung lobe should be removed.
However, with the targeted killing of cancer cells, he could try cutting out only one lung segment and cleaning the other parts with targeted killing.
Up and down, clean them one by one, and then clean them again. Then, throw in a [limb regeneration] and let the unlucky new lung segment grow out:
The lungs, unlike the liver, do not have such a strong regenerative capacity. One-third, one-half of the liver is cut off, or even in extreme cases, only the tail lobe of the liver is left, and it can still grow back slowly to the size of a whole liver;
But the lungs are not good. If they are cut off, they will be cut off. They will never grow back, and the lost respiratory function will never be replaced.
Of course, some of the extraordinary races in this world have relatively strong regenerative abilities. For example, the ogre can slowly regrow an arm if it is cut off, and the two-headed ogre can regrow even if its head is cut off.
But Frost Giant, Gretel had never heard of such a strong regeneration ability. Even if he was a Frost Giant with the blood of the white dragon, Gretel didn't want to bet on his lung regeneration ability.
Since Guterres has grand ideals and hopes to become a legend one day, Gretel decided to help him:
If a piece of lung is missing and the oxygen uptake capacity is reduced, ordinary people may be able to make do with it, but for top athletes, including top fighters, it will completely cut off their upward path!
The right lung was cut out, treated, regrown, ventilated, and recruited. Then, turn the patient to one side and continue - there's still the left hilum!
In the previous life, there would be no need for surgery for such a large area of metastasis... If the tumor invaded a wide area, one side of the lung might have to be removed, and there would be metastases on both sides. This... it would be impossible to remove... …
"Okay?"
"Is the operation finished?"
Several heads poked their heads in to look. Unlike the last abdominal surgery, for lung surgery, the person was lying on his side so that the healthy side of the lung could open as much as possible - everyone had to gather around to watch.
Gretel didn't look back and snorted angrily:
"It's still early! All the lymph nodes around the lungs need to be cleaned! There are at least 50 lymph nodes - and then there are the mediastinum, right axillary lymph nodes, and cervical lymph nodes! And their surroundings! All need to be scanned!"
This is such a big project - even if there were spells, Gretel would not dare not to dig them out one by one and clean them one by one. One lymph node per minute takes an hour, and a large area of axillary lymph nodes is involved!
The thyroid and breast surgery department next door basically performs a breast cancer resection and will also remove the armpit lymph nodes. At least 10 to 15 lymph nodes must be removed!
He patiently cleaned out all the lymph nodes. As for whether these removed lymph nodes will affect human immunity in the future, then leave it alone.
A half-step legendary warrior has a physical constitution of 19 or not 20, which is basically equivalent to being immune to all poisons and diseases. If dozens of lymph nodes are removed, it’s not a big problem... maybe they can regenerate!
This operation took almost as long as the previous operation, and Grete was exhausted after the operation. Moreover, the effect of this operation was not as good as the previous one:
After Guterres woke up, he turned his head left and right, moved his arms, and moved his back. Then, he lowered his waist and sat on his horse again, shouted loudly, and punched with all his strength:
"Wu-cough cough cough cough cough cough..."
Grete stared at him worriedly. Guterres bent over, pressed his chest, breathed for a long time, and began to frown:
"How many lungs did you cut out of me... My chest hurts..."
"I cut two lung segments, oh, about one-ninth of the lungs, and used the limb regeneration spell to grow them on you. Maybe the new lungs are a bit fragile?"
"It's true... I feel pain in my chest when I take a breath to the limit... These areas need to be cultivated and practiced slowly. It is estimated that within a year and a half, it will not be possible to practice to the original level..."
"There's no rush, you can take your time to recover, I don't want to rush you. You have to advance to the legendary level, and all your organs need to be properly conditioned. Take a good rest for a while, and there's still a third surgery - those bones in your body. !”
Lumbar spine!
pelvis!
Femur!
All are big bones, all are very complex bones, all are very important to the human body and need to bear weight... Gretel has seen the CT scan. These bones are severely corroded, and many places have become honeycombs... …
How long will it take for bones that have been corroded like this to grow? Do we need to use special methods... There is no bone cement in this damn place. Is it enough to rely solely on guided treatment to make it grow...
Grete struggled for a long time, so he had to ask people and do experiments first. This time, it was still the Necromancer who answered the fastest:
"You can use spells to corrode the bones first! Then, dispel the corrosion and use healing spells to guide its growth!"
"There are so many corrosive spells in the necromancy department! Any kind will do! It doesn't matter how serious the corrosiveness is! We are familiar with this! We are best at playing with bones!"
With the support of the Necromancer, Gretel can have as many bones as he wants. He wants to corrode until a layer of bone skin is removed, he wants to corrode until the marrow is gone, he wants to corrode until he has a honeycomb shape...
If you want to toss the pelvis, just toss the pelvis, if you want to toss the lumbar spine, just toss the lumbar spine, if you want to toss the femur, the left side, the right side, the femoral body, the greater trochanter of the femur, whatever you want!
Gretel forgot all about food and sleep and worked on it for seven days in a row.
Under the guidance of the magic, the newly grown bones may have some problems with bone density and bone strength, but first of all, the CT scan will not show up numb and bumpy like before!
"okay!"
Seven days later, another major surgery. Gretel was so exhausted that he finally repaired all the bone metastases on the frost giant's body, and then scanned his whole body to remove as many cancer cells as possible:
"It's basically sorted out! You can rest and recuperate, half a year, a year, whatever you want - in short, whether it's guarding the mage tower or cleaning the dragon cave, I won't need you for the time being..."
"Master! I will be yours from now on! My whole body is yours! Whatever you want me to do, I will do it! I can even die for you!"
The frost giant fell to the ground. Gretel took a few steps back amid the noise that sounded like a magnitude 3 earthquake:
"No! Stay away from me!!!"
I haven’t showered in a few days and this smells like this!