A pair of scissors, left in the stomach of a Vietnamese man during an operation performed 18 years earlier, has been removed by surgeons. The man had been able to lead a normal life.
Even if they are more fans of chopsticks, it is a story of scissors that the Vietnamese tell us this week. A 54-year-old man had a pair of scissors removed from his stomach, forgotten during surgery nearly 20 years earlier.
In 1998, this Vietnamese man living near Hanoi (North of the country) had undergone an operation following a car accident. But repeated stomach aches push him, 18 years later, to have an ultrasound. The examination revealed the presence of a pair of six-inch-long scissors inside his stomach.
A normal life for fifteen years
The man, who is recovering well, was operated on last December 31 for three hours to allow the extraction of the instrument, told Agence France Presse (AFP) the head of the Gang Thep Thai Nguyen Hospital. , where the intervention took place. “He is recovering well,” he added.
According to the spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, quoted by the site Suc Khoe goes Doi Song, Ma Van Nhat has lived for almost two decades with a “normal life”, being able to eat and drink without problem. The Vietnamese authorities are now looking for the doctors who performed the operation in 1998 in the province of Bac Kan (North-East of Vietnam).
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