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    …been considering for 12 years: hemicorporectomy—surgical removal of the lower part of the body. The patient died on the 11th day. The first successful hemicorporectomy (at the level between the lowest lumbar vertebra and the sacrum) was performed 18 months later by J. Bradley Aust and Karel B. Absolon of…

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