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An unwanted souvenir!!

A man who went to hospital with stomach pains was found to have a surgical clamp inside his belly - from an operation 37 years before. The Chinese man had gastric ulcer surgery in 1974 and had frequently suffered stomach pains in subsequent years. He comments: "I thought it was my old stomach problems and each time I took stomach medication or anti-inflammation pills to relieve the pain." With the pains getting worse he went back to hospital - and doctors discovered the 10cm long instrument before removing it in a two hour operation. According to doctors he was lucky because part of the abdominal wall had wrapped around the clamp from development of post-surgical adhesions, preventing it from moving and potentially causing serious internal injuries.