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TODAY: Breast are reconstructed with saline sacs or with living tissue, using fat and muscle from the back, buttocks or abdomen...
SPARE THE SCALPEL Parents aren't alone in having trouble figuring out if their kid's bellyache is really appendicitis. In up to 20% of cases, doctors operate only to find a perfectly healthy appendix. Now a study shows that examining the abdomen with ultrasound or a CAT scan is 94% accurate in diagnosing whether a sick child does or does not require surgery. One drawback: a nonradioactive dye must be administered through the child's rectum before a CAT scan can be performed...
Beyond that, says Dr. Lawrence Einhorn of Indiana University, who treated Lance Armstrong, "we have looked at several risk factors, and the only one that's really been proved is cryptorchidism." In plain English, that means undescended testicles. In a male fetus, the testicles normally develop inside the abdomen and descend into the scrotal sac before birth. In some cases, though, one (and sometimes both) of the testicles stays inside the body. The laggard normally drops into place in the child's first year of life, though surgery is sometimes needed to help it along...
...your own kid, there is a temptation for more mature citizens to view great wealth at an early age as contrary to the laws of nature. Did God really mean for someone to have a private jet and a flat abdomen at the same time? Isn't one supposed to compensate for the absence of the other? On a related subject, how old should a trophy wife be if the fabulously successful businessman who feels the need of a trophy is only 27 years old himself...
...diseases turn on angiogenesis and don't turn it off," he says. "Arthritis, where vessels grow on the joints; blindness in diabetics; endometriosis, where there's bleeding in the abdomen from the lining of the uterus gone up the tube...