Word: distended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benoit stayed in Eugene, where on April 25 in Sacred Heart General Hospital she was placed under general anesthesia. Surgeon James made a ¼-in. incision in her right knee and inserted a thin tube through which a saline solution was injected to flush away pieces of tissue and distend the joint. He then made another small cut and inserted the arthroscope, a 10-in.-long instrument as thin as a drinking straw, with optical fibers on its tip that throw a bright light inside the knee. The image can be viewed either directly through the tube or magnified...