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Her Spine Curved 140 Degrees the Wrong Way, and the Bigger Problem Was Her Lungs
Surgeons in Beijing rebuilt a 36-year-old woman's spine from neck to sacrum after a backward curve no medical journal had ever described.
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Eight Years of Thigh Pain Ended After a Scan Ordered for Something Else Found the Cause
A patient spent eight years with unexplained thigh pain. A PET scan ordered for an unrelated problem finally revealed a glomus tumor.
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Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It
A review of 1,000 abdominal CT scans found pancreatic tissue encircling a major vein in 27 patients, a variant that complicates surgery.
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