CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
EMR: "Select laterality." Me: "It's the brainstem." EMR: "Select laterality." Me: "It is in the middle." EMR: "Right." Me: "No — the MIDDLE." EMR: "Right." Midline structures. The software has two options and the anatomy has three, and only one of us is going to bend. Send this to whoever else has fought a required field and lost.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Midline structures such as the brainstem, corpus callosum and vermis are not lateralized to a left or right side. A required left/right laterality field cannot correctly describe a midline lesion.
Established gross neuroanatomy: brainstem and other midline structures are unpaired and non-lateralized.
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