Sat 02 October 2021:
Doctors in Lithuania removed over a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who began ingesting metal objects after quitting drinking.
The man, who was not identified for patient privacy reasons, was brought to a hospital in Klaipeda, a Baltic port city, with acute abdominal pain.
Metal fragments measuring up to 10cm were discovered on an X-ray of his stomach (4in).
“During the three-hour operation with X-ray control, all foreign bodies, even the smallest ones, in the patient’s stomach were removed,” said surgeon Sarunas Dailidenas.
The hospital provided local media with a photograph of a surgical tray heaped with nails and screws.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Algirdas Slepavicius, head surgeon at Klaipeda Hospital told local media.
The doctor said that the man had begun swallowing the metal objects over the last month after he had stopped drinking.
The patient was in a stable condition following the operation, he added.
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