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Saudi Surgeons Remove Toothbrush After 22 Years in Patient’s Stomach
A Saudi medical team removed a toothbrush from the stomach of a man who had swallowed it 22 years ago, the official SPA news agency reported yesterday. The toothbrush caused the 70-year-old patient no ill effects until a few days before he was operated on, said Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Zahrani, the head of the team at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital in the western town of Taif. The operation was successful, Zahrani added.
A second, simpler operation is scheduled to remove the floss from his small intestine.

Posted by: Fred 2005-01-19
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