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Re:Italian doctors successfully transplant a kidney in the p... by escape_goat on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:57AM (#13176896)
You are in for a surprise. The spleen is a very big and very important organ that goes largely unnoticed.
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Re:Italian doctors successfully transplant a kidney in the p... by jessaustin on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:12AM (#13177054)
I've lived the last 26 years without a spleen, with none of the immunological problems that various physicians threatened. The importance of the spleen exceeds that of the appendix, but only just.
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Re:Italian doctors successfully transplant a kidney in the p... by escape_goat on Sunday December 25, 2016 @10:51PM (#13256838)
The truth is that I had confused it with the pancreas.
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