A normally-routine visit to the dentist left a 27-year-old Vancouver man with a gross-looking lump on his hand that turned out to be a sign of a life-threatening heart infection. According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine , the man went to the emergency room six weeks after the dental checkup, complaining of abdominal pain and "a pulsatile, painful lesion on the right hand."
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