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A man held in a sneeze — and it punctured his windpipeA man tore his windpipe, in part, due to hay fever.
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A woman heard a 'pop' during Pilates class. Her spine had sprung a leak.A woman developed awful headaches after a Pilates class, and their underlying cause was very unusual.
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Diagnostic dilemma: Botched penile tattoo left man with permanent semi-erectionA man developed a rare condition after getting a tattoo on his genitals.
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A rash 'migrated' across a man's body from his anusA man being treated with corticosteroids developed a rare complication of an infection.
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Diagnostic dilemma: Virus caused a man to have hiccups for days on endIn an unusual case, a man's multiday bout of hiccups was triggered by a respiratory infection.
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Diagnostic dilemma: A man who couldn't pee had been infected by one of the largest known human parasitesA 35-year-old man who couldn't pass urine learned that the cause of his obstruction was a giant worm living in his kidney.
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Diagnostic dilemma: A scientist caught plague from bacteria thought to be 'noninfectious'A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious.
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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's deadly infection was triggered by a probiotic supplementA man with a complex medical history ended up with a rare bacterial infection after taking probiotics in the hospital.
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Diagnostic dilemma: A fish bone wandered through a man's abdomen and stabbed his liverA man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms had an unusual cause.
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