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1 Vandergucht underwent a liver scan. Page 181 2 He underwent a proctosigmoidoscopy. They 3 were looking for the primary cancer that was in the 4 umbilical that they didn't know what the origin was. 5 He continued, had a colonoscopy, there were 6 some polyps, but they were benign. 7 In November of 1980, he went in for an 8 exploratory laparotomy because Dr. Steers told Mr. and 9 Mrs. Vandergucht we have to find the origin of the 10 tumor, so they did a laparotomy, an exploration in the 11 abdominal cavity. 12 He had something called intra-abdominal 13 ascites. You see the peritoneal mesothelioma, the 14 tumor is fluid and the fluid accumulates and builds up 15 and continues to build up, it is not supposed to be 16 there, but it is there and it continues to build up 17 and it has to be drained. 18 They did the operation and removed about 19 1.84 gallons of fluid from his abdominal cavity. They 20 did that when they did the laparotomy. 21 When they did the exploration, they opened