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A sticky surgical situation

Keira Louise
Stephenson
4cm x 1.5cm piece of wood removed from knee
Dr Khalil has dug out some strange foreign bodies in his time in New Zealand, but this is one of the most surprising
I used the curette to clean the dead tissue out and, to my surprise, I found another piece of timber measuring more than 3cm long! A Matamata G, stick in knee, This piece of wood had been in the man’s leg since last April