Li Liang-hsiung, director of neuro-surgery at Veterans General Hospital, once said: "In more than twenty years of operations on such patients, only one survived, while the rest succumbed within a year of surgery."
榮總神經醫學中心主任李良雄曾感嘆地說：「二十幾年來，開這種刀的病人只有一個存活，其他的在一年內都相繼過世。」