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X-Ray Reveals Scissors Left in Patient's Abdomen

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...

Bizarre 'Alien' Tumor Found Inside California Man

Like part of the storyline from the 1979 sci-fi classic "Alien," a California man discovered he had a large, tentacled, alien-type tumor growing inside him. After Josh Abken complained of back pains last year, a subsequent X-ray revealed something both frightening and bizarre, CBS 13 reports. "You think you got a serious...

Unbelievable X-Ray Shows Knife Stuck in 13-Year-Old's Face

A Chinese teenager narrowly averted disaster after accidentally stabbing himself in the face with a knife. Ren Hanzhi, 13, was peeling an apple when he tripped and fell on Jan. 31, jamming a nearly 8-inch knife deep into his left cheek just below his eye -- barely missing his brain and nearly puncturing the aorta. "He...

Are Children Exposed to Too Much Radiation?

Those bumps to the head and bellyaches are leading to so many X-rays and CT scans that the average child will have more than seven imaging tests involving radiation by age 18, a study finds. The trend is raising concern because children may have an increased cancer risk from repeated radiation exposure. The study, the...

TSA Chief Says No Change in Airport Scanners, Pat-Downs

(Nov. 17) -- Faced with a barrage of questions about new airline screening procedures, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said today there would be no changes in the use of full-body scans and pat-downs for passengers. Administrator John Pistole acknowledged at a congressional hearing that the new...

Background on x ray

X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×1016 Hz to 3×1019 Hz) and energies in the range 100 eV to 100 keV.

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