Correct the following by adding or removing hyphens
1. The patient denies a history of abdominal pain, jaundice, clay colored stools, or recent unexplained weight loss.
2. There was no intrahepatic-biliary duct dilatation.
3. It does not involve the bone- or the joint space.
4. He underwent repair of an incarcerated ventral-umbilical hernia with mesh.
5. She is a pleasant 51 year old Hispanic female who complains of recurrent abdominal pain mostly localized to the epigastrium and right upper quadrant areas.
6. She never really followed up post-operatively, but today she is here complaining of mid-epigastric pain.
1. clay-colored
2. remove hyphen
3. remove hyphen
4. remove hyphen
5. 51-year-old
6. postoperatively (remove hyphen), midepigastric (remove hyphen)
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