26 Years After He Was Stabbed, Doctor Removes Rusty Knife From Chinese Man¡¯s Head
In a bizarre medical case, doctors at a hospital in China's Shandong province removed a four-inch-long rusty knife from a man's head 26 years after he was stabbed.
According to reports, the Chinese farmer named Duorijie was violently mugged back in the mid-1990s and was left with a four-inch-long rusty knife stuck inside his head.
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Since that incident, he¡¯d been unable to have it removed. He also tried to seek medical help back in 2012 after developing symptoms like chronic headache and loss of vision in the right eye, however, the knife couldn¡¯t be removed back then.
Several years later, he was spotted with the knife inside his head by doctors during a medical tour of Qinghai. Due to the limitations of hospitals in the area, the team of doctors shifted the man to Shandong for the best possible treatment.
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Reports state that the blade was placed at the ¡®base of the patient¡¯s skull, lodged against his eye socket and pressing against his optic nerve¡¯.
The doctors conducted several scans of the man's head before finally deciding on a two-part surgery.
¡°During the two-hour surgery, surgeons removed the rusty 10-centimeter (4-inch) blade.
On April 8, he underwent a second operation to clean his wound. He¡¯s recovering well and can already walk around on his own. His head pains are gone, and he has regained full sight in his right eye. He can also open his mouth and no longer coughs,¡± said Zhang Shuxiang, one of the doctors who found the man.
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After studying the case, the doctors decided to perform a two-part surgery and removed the four-inch blade. The 76-year-old, from the rural county of Haiyan in China¡¯s north-western Qinghai Province, underwent the long awaited procedures on April 2 and April 8.
Chief neurosurgeon Dr Liu Guangcun said removing the blade was the ¡®only way to resolve the pensioner¡¯s suffering once and for all¡¯.
