In a shocking and outlandish medical case has left doctors stunned in Lithuania where over a kilogram of nails, screws, and knives were found in a man’s stomach. The bizarre thing is that the man had been swallowing metallic objects after quitting alcohol.
According to Daily Mail, the man, whose identity has not been revealed, was admitted to a hospital in the Baltic port city of Klaipeda after severe pain in his abdomen.
When the doctor conducted an X-ray, they left shocked after seeing several pieces of metal (around 10 centimetres) inside his stomach.
Though foreign bodies found inside a human’s body are not uncommon, this case was unique.
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Doctors also described this case as ‘unique’ because of the huge amount of metallic objects found in a human’s body.
However, the medical personnel managed to conduct the surgery and remove all the metallic objects after a three-hour operation.
According to surgeon Sarunas Dailidena, “During the three-hour operation with X-ray control, all foreign bodies, even the smallest ones, in the patient’s stomach were removed.”
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Another head surgeon Algirdas Slepavicius, at Klaipeda Hospital, said, “We’ve never seen anything like it.”
After the surgery, the man is in a stable condition and recovering. He is also being given psychological assistance at the hospital.
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