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1 up the intestinal tract and the abdomen on an Page 951 2 outpatient basis before any further treatment. 3 Q What were you trying to do when you did 4 these tests on an outpatient basis? 5 What were you trying to find? 6 A As I say, we were concerned that there might 7 be a primary tumor somewhere that was -- which 8 supplied the origin of what we found at surgery and, 9 therefore, we examined the large intestine, did a 10 colonoscopy and proctosigmoidoscopy, he had an upper 11 GI and small bowel which means the upper intestinal 12 tract from the esophagus to the large intestine was 13 examined, he had a kidney X-ray to clear the kidney 14 and bladder area, and a barium enema and X-ray of the 15 lower intestinal tract. 16 Q As a result of that, were you all able to 17 find the primary or what were the results of those 18 tests? 19 A Dr. Ginsberg found four small polyps which 20 he removed which were all benign, but other than that, 21 the findings were all negative, normal.