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X-Ray Reveals Scissors Left in Patient's Abdomen

Feb 16, 2011 – 2:22 PM
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Lee Speigel

Lee Speigel Contributor

A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on.

After a woman, Anne, in Lyon, France, complained of postsurgery abdominal pains, an X-ray revealed a pair of 4-inch-long surgical scissors that somehow had been forgotten and left inside her for five months.

Anne realized something was wrong after a coughing fit when she discovered that the point of the scissors had suddenly pierced her navel. The scissors were finally removed and she's reportedly planning to sue the surgeon.


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