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Doctors save man pierced in a freak accident by 5-feet long rod through the neck

    Sagaya Fernando Mumbai: 6 November 22   A team of doctors at Apollo Multispecialty hospital in Triuchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, saved the life of a 33-years-old man whose neck was pierced through by a feet long iron rod.   Karthikeyan, a resident of Ariyamangalam in the city, was watering the concrete slabs on the first floor of his under-construction house when he accidentally slipped and fell 15 to 20 feet down, on October 15. As he fell, a 5 feet long iron rod with serrated edges pierced through his neck and came out from the back.   “Within fifteen minutes of the mishap, his relatives rushed him to our hospital which is in close vicinity,” informed Apollo Multispecialty Hospital, Triuchirappalli, Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon Dr Mohamed Mansoor, who led the operating team.   “On evaluation in emergency, it was seen that he had a 5 feet long iron rod penetrating into the anterior aspect of neck and exiting the posterior aspect of neck.
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OMG! 62 spoons removed from 35-year-old man’s stomach

 


 

Sagaya Fernando

Mumbai: 28 September 2022

 

 

In a bizarre case, doctors in India surgically removed 62 spoons from the stomach and one spoon lodged in the intestine of a patient.

 

The patient named Vijay was brought to Evan Hospital in Muzaffarnagar city of Uttar Pradesh, India, in the second week of September by his family members claiming that he had eaten a steel spoon.

 

“The patient did not complain of any abdominal pain, but I conducted an examination of his stomach and came to the conclusion that some foreign objects are lodged in his stomach,” said surgeon Dr Rakesh Khurana who conducted the surgery.

 

The doctor asked the patient to undergo an X-ray examination and was aghast to discover multiple spoons lodged in the patient’s stomach and one in the intestine.

 

“On being asked, the patient admitted that he had been ingesting spoons for the past one year,” said Dr Khurana.

 

Sensing the seriousness of the case, the patient was asked to undergo surgery at the earliest.

 

Dr Khurana and his team conducted the surgery on Vijay on September 25. In the 2 hours long surgery, they extricated 62 steel spoons from the patient’s stomach and another one from his intestine. Interestingly, all the spoons had their heads missing.

 

“The patient is a resident of Bopara village under Mansurpur area of Muzaffarnagar police station. He is addicted to alcohol and was admitted to a de-addiction centre six months ago, and has been ingesting the spoons,” said Dr Khurana.

 

He further added that the patient is still in a critical stage and is kept at the hospital’s ICU.

 




 

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