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| − | HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Doctors in Vietnam have removed surgical forceps from a man who unknowingly carried them inside his body for 18 years, national television VTV reported.<br><br>Ma Van | + | HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Doctors in Vietnam have removed surgical forceps from a man who unknowingly carried them inside his body for 18 years, national television VTV reported.<br><br>Ma Van [https://www.visatutuc.vn/dich-vu/visa-nhat-ban/ visa nhat ban], 54, said the forceps had probably been left in his abdomen in 1998 when he had emergency surgery after a [http://bordersalertandready.com/?s=traffic&search=Search traffic] accident.<br><br>Nhat had felt only the occasional pain and a clinic had given him medicine for a suspected stomach ulcer. An X-ray taken late last year showed the [http://www.stockhouse.com/search?searchtext=forceps forceps] were to blame.<br><br>The 15 cm (six inch) long instrument had broken apart and become lodged in Nhat's stomach. They were removed in an operation.<br><br>The director of Bac Kan Hospital, Trinh Thi Luong, told VTV that officials were trying to find out who might have left the forceps in Nhat.<br><br>"Even if they are already retired we will still inform them," she said. "This is a lesson to all doctors".<br><br>Medical errors are not uncommon in Vietnam. Over the past year there have been two cases of doctors operating on wrong limbs, and three cases of men being diagnosed as pregnant. (Reporting by My Pham; Editing by Darren Schuettler)<br><br>Advertisement |
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HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Doctors in Vietnam have removed surgical forceps from a man who unknowingly carried them inside his body for 18 years, national television VTV reported.
Ma Van visa nhat ban, 54, said the forceps had probably been left in his abdomen in 1998 when he had emergency surgery after a traffic accident.
Nhat had felt only the occasional pain and a clinic had given him medicine for a suspected stomach ulcer. An X-ray taken late last year showed the forceps were to blame.
The 15 cm (six inch) long instrument had broken apart and become lodged in Nhat's stomach. They were removed in an operation.
The director of Bac Kan Hospital, Trinh Thi Luong, told VTV that officials were trying to find out who might have left the forceps in Nhat.
"Even if they are already retired we will still inform them," she said. "This is a lesson to all doctors".
Medical errors are not uncommon in Vietnam. Over the past year there have been two cases of doctors operating on wrong limbs, and three cases of men being diagnosed as pregnant. (Reporting by My Pham; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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