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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from ANSYS
Diagnostics, Inc. and Subsidiary Consolidated Financial Statements as of
December 31, 1998 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such Form S-1
Registration Statement of ANSYS Diagnostics, Inc.
</LEGEND>
       
                             
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