A steel ball from a slingshot penetrated the eye socket and lodged deep within the skull of a 4-year-old boy, necessitating an overnight emergency surgery to remove the foreign object.
Hien, a 42-year-old patient, experienced blurred vision and a bulging left eye. Doctors diagnosed a deep tumor in her left eye orbit and performed surgery via a trans-ocular approach, retracting the eyeball to access the mass.
After observing an AI robot-assisted brain surgery nearly 10 years ago in the US, doctor Chu Tan Si recognized it as the answer to the question, 'how to reduce post-operative complications'.