Metal staples closing a surgical scar down the inner leg in a 61 year old male diabetic patient after surgery in which the ilio-femoral artery needed

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Metal staples closing a surgical scar down the inner leg in a 61 year old male diabetic patient after surgery in which the ilio-femoral artery needed a distal bypass due to vascular (blood vessel) disease and so improve blood supply to the leg.

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Photo credit: © DR P. MARAZZI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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