Names in the News - July 18, 1989
Center Akeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets was released from a hospital after one week of treatment for thrombophlebitis in his left leg, the Rockets announced. Thromboplebitis is an irritation of the inner lining of a blood vein associated with a blood clot.
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