Mr. Molaison lost his ability to form new memories after an operation that removed a slug-size chunk of tissue from deep in each hemisphere of his brain, making it more delicate than most.
The two men spoke quietly together, after which the older man removed a fist-size wad of cash from his pocket and handed it to the son-in-law.
Surgeons then removed a grapefruit-size tumor from his intestines and discovered he had colon cancer.
Haggard has double reason to be feeling hopeful: He's just won a bout with lung cancer, and now is apparently clear of the disease after surgeons removed a lemon-size lump from his chest.
It was there that his illness was first diagnosed and he underwent an operation that removed a tumor "the size of a baseball," as Chávez described it, from his pelvic area.
A doctor discovered that his form of pancreatic cancer might be treatable after all, and the musician underwent radical surgery, which removed a tumor the size of a watermelon and weighing 3kg.
We further removed a DNA fragment size range enriched for repetitive sequences so that more reads are usable for alignment.
At the end of July – with him back in the states, but not by my side – a team of surgeons removed a golf-ball sized tumor from my back and I prepared to start aggressive chemotherapy treatment for extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma (a rare bone cancer that, in my case, was found in soft tissue) in August.
Samples were removed with a size 11, steel micro-scalpel blade and cast separately in mini-cube molds, approximately half-inch width each, suspended in polyester resin (Extec polyester clear resin with methyl ethyl ketone peroxide catalyst, Extec Corporation®, Enfield, CT).
Unbound biotin-EGF was removed using a size exclusion column.
