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A
pair of scissors which was removed from a patient's abdomen after being left
behind during a surgery 18 years ago, at a clinic in the northern Vietnamese
city of Thai Nguyen ©Vietnam News Agency (Vietnam News Agency/AFP)
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A Vietnamese man has had
scissors removed from his abdomen which were left behind during surgery 18
years ago, after reporting a stomachache that was nearly two decades in the
making.
AFP
report continues:
Ma
Van Nhat, now 54, underwent surgery in 1998 after a car accident and only
recently discovered that doctors had left an unwelcome gift behind when they
closed him up.
Doctors
discovered the 15-centimetre (six-inch) scissors near his colon after a recent
ultrasound.
He
had a three-hour operation at the weekend to remove the scissors, according to
Ngo Trung Thang, deputy head of general affairs at Gang Thep Thai Nguyen
hospital, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Hanoi.
"He
is recovering well," Thang told AFP Tuesday.
Nhat
had spent nearly two decades "eating, drinking and having a pretty normal
life", according to Suc Khoe va Doi Song news site, the official
mouthpiece of Vietnam's health ministry.
The
ultrasound that discovered the scissors only came about after Nhat reported
stomach pains.
Officials said they were searching for the doctors who performed surgery in Bac Kan province in 1998, but have not yet tracked down any culprits.
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