Doctors made the bizarre discovery after the girl in Russia repeatedly complained of having a sore stomach and she was eventually taken for treatment
Stunned medics have removed a metal spoon from a girl’s stomach measuring eight-inches (20cm) after she swallowed it while eating lunch.
Doctors made the bizarre discovery after the girl repeatedly complained of having a tummy ache and she was eventually taken for treatment. She was given medical attention at the Vologda State Regional Clinical Hospital, in Russia, on 7th May where unsuspecting staff took a series of X-rays to try and find the cause of her pain.
To their amazement the images inside her abdomen clearly showed an eight-inch-long metal object lodged in her stomach. Medic Dmitry Vankov said: “The girl immediately underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy – examination of the stomach using a video endoscope, which helped the doctors to confirm the diagnosis.
“The spoon was captured with a special loop and removed from the stomach through the oesophagus. The procedure was performed by Maxim Sergeevich Filatov, head of the endoscopic department, an endoscopist.”
Vankov also mentioned that additional surgery and hospitalisation were unnecessary since the girl was in good health otherwise and was discharged home promptly following the procedure. He added: “Take care of yourselves and handle various objects carefully. Another long weekend is ahead.”
The news comes after surgeons removed a massive lock of hair from inside the brain of an eight year old girl. Stunned surgeons removed the lock of hair, which measured three feet in length, from inside the skull of the girl, identified only as T.A.
The young patient, from Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad Region, was taken in for surgery after a scan revealed a large mass in her brain’s fourth ventricle.
A team of medics under the stewardship of Dr Mitalip Mamytov operated on the child at Jal Hospital in Bishkek. The experts were stunned once they had opened her head up and found that the mass they had seen on the brain scans was made entirely out of hair.
A post-op snap shows them holding up the lock for the camera, which appears to be about three feet long. The medical staff reportedly believe that the hair mass grew over the girl’s lifetime.
