An elderly woman was shocked when doctors removed from her stomach a 5-cm needle. It turned out that they were there for 66 years.
68-year-old resident of the Turkish Izmir Razi Basaksehir some time ago went to the hospital with complaints of pain in the stomache. Doctors performed x-rays and other tests, finding that the woman’s abdomen there is an abnormal communication between the stomach and skin, which causes leakage of stomach contents. Moreover, this disorder started more than 6 decades ago when the then year-old girl shoved three needles with a length of 5 cm himself in the stomach. At that moment one of the needles was removed by surgeons, but the other two remained unnoticed. The doctors had to conduct another surgery after which the patient went to the amendment.
After admission to the hospital, doctors diagnosed female disorder called external small bowel fistula. It is caused by penetrating wounds such as those left behind of the needle, creating a connection between stomach and skin through which the contents of the digestive system may leak out. Two foreign object could be seen on x-rays, after which the doctors have carefully studied the medical history of the patient, to explain this. Remaining in the body for 66 years, the needles were a shock not only for the unfortunate women, who lived with them all my life, but also for doctors.
Despite the fact that at that moment the woman was very young, she remembers the details of what happened. That day looked after her uncle, who told her mother that the girl won’t stop crying. Mom examined the daughter and found several needles protruding from the abdomen. The woman screamed from fear, and the girl instinctively flinched, and drove the needle deeper. Then her mom fainted, and the grandparents after a while took the child to the hospital, where surgeons removed a needle. The remaining two came out only now. (READ MORE)