Did His Unusual Dinner Lead to a Tape Worm 50 Years Later?
(MedPage Today) -- During surgery to repair a hernia in a 71-year-old man's right groin, his doctors discovered something unexpected: a tapeworm. The surgeons fished the 10-inch long worm out…
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