When news of the second case became public, the hospital's chief executive, Dr. Vivian Wong Taam Chi-woon, insisted that the surgeon was right to remove the fallopian tube because it was seriously inflamed.

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Other instruments can be inserted into the tube or through other small incisions to remove the ectopic tissue and repair the fallopian tube.

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After some byplay, the spectator would discover that the bill was no longer there, whereupon Scott would pull from his own pocket a small metal tube, secured with a padlock, and remove the signed bill.

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