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Woman with 23-year stomach-ache learns doctors forgot scalpel
Feb 12, 2007, 21:03 GMT
Rio de Janeiro - After a 23-year-long stomach-ache, a Brazilian woman finally discovered the cause of her suffering - a scalpel had been left in her stomach.
Local media reports said Monday that a knife had been found in Maria Abadia Dias' lower abdomen after doctors took an X-ray in the central Brazilian town of Goiania, in the state of Goias.
The 5-centimetre-long scalpel was apparently left there by doctors in a public hospital in Campos Belos, Goias in 1984, when the woman, now 47, gave birth through a C-section.
The surgical instrument is to be removed sometime later this month. The woman has said she will sue the hospital in Campos Belos as soon as she is rid of the scalpel.
Doctors 'always told me that I had nothing and that it was only a question of age,' the woman said of her persistent stomach pain.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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tomMar 13th, 2007 - 18:31:46
I always wondered what happened to that knife
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