Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report These images show the string of nearly four dozen magnetic balls removed from a boy’s bowels after he swallowed the lot and they ruptured his stomach and intestines in 10 places. The five-year-old from Pingyang, a county in East China’s Zhejiang Province, was…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Alex Cope, Agency: Asia Wire Report Picture Credit: AsiaWire A nine-year-old girl has had this 500-gram clump of her own hair removed from her stomach during emergency surgery after her ‘Rapunzel syndrome’ caused acute pancreatitis. According to local media, the young girl, identified as Youyou, was rolling on the…
Story By: Buli Liang, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report A 16-month-old girl has undergone surgery to remove a toothpick the poor tot swallowed which ended up piercing two holes in her intestinal wall. The three-centimetre long toothpick was removed from little Feifei at the Huai'an Women's and Children's Health Care Hospital in…
Story By: Marija Petrovska, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire These images show the toothbrush doctor's have removed from a man’s intestine 20 years after he swallowed it. The 51-year-old patient surnamed Li was experiencing pain in his abdomen so doctors scheduled a CT scan for him in Shenzhen, a major city in the…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report This footage shows a toothbrush in the stomach of a pensioner before doctors finally remove it after she swallowed it nine months earlier but did nothing as she thought she would poo it out. The 66-year-old patient, who was identified by her surname Zhang, sought out…
