From Linda Shields
Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s article about organ transplantation was disturbing
(18 December 1999, p 48).
However, in the opening paragraph, she describes a woman
who found a kidney missing after removal of an ovarian cyst.
I find it difficult to imagine how anyone could remove a kidney (from behind
the rib cage, and not in the abdomen) while operating on an ovary, which lies
inside the lower part of the abdominal cavity.
South Brisbane, Queensland
