When the short-term effects of surgery — such as oozing wounds and incision pain — have long faded, an unseen complication may be lurking beneath the skin. Excess scar tissue, layers deep, can ...

BOZEMAN — On a plateau north of the Madison River, there are dense stands of dead lodgepole pine trees. Most are short. Interspersed among the thick toothpick stands are blank spots, having been nuked ...