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Tuesday, August 31, 1999 Published at 09:10 GMT 10:10 UK
Entertainment
Taylor returns home
Elizabeth Taylor: Has suffered from health problems for years
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has been released from hospital where she had been treated for a back injury following a fall.
The 67-year-old actress went home from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sunday, her spokesman, Warren Cowan said.
Taylor is recovering well from a compression fracture of a vertebra and undergoing physical therapy at home, he added.
Her recovery is expected to take several weeks.
Taylor broke a bone in her back in the accident at her Bel Air home on 19 August.
Her doctor, Patrick Rhoten, diagnosed Taylor, as having suffered a "compression fracture of the 12th thoracic vertebrae."
The actress has suffered a string of health problems and has undergone more than 20 surgical operations in her life.
She first injured her back in 1944, when she was thrown from a horse during the filming of the show jumping movie National Velvet.
In 1998, she fractured a vertebrae in a fall at her home.
The year before, she had a benign tumor removed from her brain.
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