Word: groin
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...treat Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer common in AIDS patients that produces severe skin lesions. The doctors thought that heating a patient's blood might combat the cancer and possibly even kill the AIDS virus. During the procedure, called hyperthermia, blood is drawn from a vein in the groin, heated in a water bath and continuously recirculated into the body. In little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees F, and it is kept there for an additional two hours. Crawford came through the operation with no ill effects, as did Tony -- so far. Logan...
...task he dreads. Tor Kham and the nurse have to tie Rahmat Hussain's wrists to the bedpost with strips of gauze to keep him from reaching down while they remove the bandages. All the skin has been torn from Rahmat Hussain's inner thighs and groin to his stomach, and the pink, raw flesh forms a vast inverted horseshoe two inches deep -- as if he had mounted a burning saddle that seared deep into his body. He was injured during an attack in a village called , Allishir, in the Khost province. The mujahedin were advancing, and the man next...