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'Cello Scrotum' Exposed as Medical Hoax

Spoof inflammatory condition had fooled experts for 34 years

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 28, 2009 2:20 AM CST

(Newser) – The world's cellists can rest easy today knowing the dreaded "cello scrotum" is a myth, the Independent reports. A doctor who's a member of Britain's House of Lords has confessed that she invented the condition described in a letter to the British Medical Journal...   Read full story »

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