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10 weeks post op Tummy Tuck, can they detect stitches in a MRI?

September 9, 2014
Asked By:body5000 in Hawaii, HI

I am 10 weeks po. And prior to surgery I had a back spasms. They went away for a while, but now they are back. My pcp wants me to get a mri & ex rays, bit I scared theyll see it my exrays I had surgery. So my question is can they tell, thru the mri & xrays I had a tt? And I have to go in to have my hip looked at due to an injury I had a year ago. 

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