"BEIJING - Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday.
Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said the senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province.
Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, said the director of the hospital's Communist Party committee's office who would only give his surname, He.
Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery.
The case, which one of the doctors described as a "miracle," has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the Internet."
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/18/ap/strange/main20033301.shtml
Another of todays news stories that baffles the mind...this is totally a miracle. Still, I'd be interested in knowing which MD takes an accident history knowing this man was stabbed with a knife in his head and doesn't do a CT, MRI or even a plain Jane ex-ray to identify the cranial involvement of the injury...and who does his examining assessment and thinks "Oh well. There's nothing besides a cut here and this man is obviously still conscious. No harm done."
Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said the senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province.
Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, said the director of the hospital's Communist Party committee's office who would only give his surname, He.
Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery.
The case, which one of the doctors described as a "miracle," has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the Internet."
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/18/ap/strange/main20033301.shtml
Another of todays news stories that baffles the mind...this is totally a miracle. Still, I'd be interested in knowing which MD takes an accident history knowing this man was stabbed with a knife in his head and doesn't do a CT, MRI or even a plain Jane ex-ray to identify the cranial involvement of the injury...and who does his examining assessment and thinks "Oh well. There's nothing besides a cut here and this man is obviously still conscious. No harm done."
I can't even think about having that stuck in there. But yeah, an MRI would've been good. I mean, they are expensive though if you don't have the right insurance, maybe he just couldn't afford to get it done at the time? I'm not really sure how emergency situations work with that, but I've turned down an MRI once when I didn't think I needed it, in a non-emergency situation...
