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Gloria Oladipo

‘This is wild’: Florida man plays guitar during brain surgery to remove tumor

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The University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Doctors at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center performed the procedure. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A Florida man recently helped surgeons remove a tumor from his brain by playing 1980s and 90s rock music.

Christian Nolen, a professional guitarist in the south Florida community of Coral Gables, was instructed by doctors to play several songs on his guitar while undergoing an awake craniotomy meant to take a tumor out of the right side of his frontal lobe, WSVN Miami reported.

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