Functional MRI

Today I witnessed a functional MRI study. It was on a patient who was a hemophilia and had a brain tumor that was hemorrhaging. The patient will have to have surgery to remove the tumor, so the functional MRI was done to see how the patients speech will be effected after the surgery. The radiologist and surgeon will discuss the surgery options later today. This was a very interesting case, but also very sad because the patient is very young.