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January 20, 2009 by Anonymous, 44 weeks 7 hours ago
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of course it's a reason for many surgeries as it gets inflammed, but tere's a reason for existence of every human part.For example you can't cut out the appendix from a very small child(don't remember exactly the age)as the the digestive tract microflora develops there and a chilld's digestion would be severly impaired(if not impossible)if he had appendectomia in an early age.The same is with thymus-it exists until around 12 years of age, later disappears.