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Word: thrombo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recovered rapidly. Seven weeks after surgery, he was running up and down four flights of stairs, testing his legs on lengthy hikes. Dr. DeBakey's operation, which has the tongue-defying name of thrombo-endarterectomy, is performed in scores of U.S. hospitals. He estimates that its use has value in some 40% of stroke cases, either in preventing the first, as in Key's case, or the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: UNCLOGGING A VITAL BLOOD VESSEL | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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