Doctors Remove Knife From Chinese Man’s Head Aftter 4 Years
- Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:37pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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BEIJING (AP) — Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) 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.
“We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head,” Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital’s stomatology department, told state broadcaster CCTV.
CCTV showed footage of the rusted knife and interviewed Li, who said: “As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears. It has been four years already.”
Dr. Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center, said X-ray images of the man‘s head posted on the hospital’s website show the knife sitting behind the man’s throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures.
“There are planes and spaces between important organs. That’s how one does surgery — you dissect in those planes, move the trachea one way, the esophagus the other,” he said.
“Maybe out of sheer luck this knife passed through” one such area, Flamm said, adding that he was still surprised at the time the blade supposedly spent in the man’s body.
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Adog
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 10:32pmWow where the hell is the robber
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:29pmthat s the health-care coming to America
Report Post »babysealclubber
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:36amDon’t they have National Universal Health Care in China?—–essentially Obama Care? He must of been on a waiting list for elective surgery.
Report Post »FASTCOMPANY
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 10:50amNow where did I put that knife blade?
Report Post »BrentW
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 10:32amIs anybody going to try to return the knife to its rightful owner (the robber) ? Poor guy’s had a low “weapons inventory” for 4 years now !!
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:24amWelcome to the world of obomacare.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 10:17pmdo believe he was a little rusty in the head.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 6:16pmAnd I thought I lost that knife. Now if I could just find my revolver!
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:32amAnd you dare make fun of people who misspell signs????
AFFTER….too funny.
Report Post »salguido
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 1:56pmI read in the New York times this morning, that this poor man was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon…..
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 10:36amOh yes,, someday we will have government healthcare too. I can’t wait
Report Post »LoneWolfeMcQuade
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 9:43amI can see severe headaches and breathing difficulties, but bad breathe…..hmmmmmm
Report Post »9thCommandment
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 9:35amWouldn’t it be funny if the knife was “Made in the USA”!
Report Post »Charbet
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 8:48pmTalk about iron-y…
8-)
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 9:09am“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.” Hmm…are they going to check for finger prints to find the person who did this to him!?
Report Post »Mlark7
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 5:39amThe title of this story has an error. “Aftter”
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:06pmI wonder if this rusty knife (tetanus?) poisoned his system in any way. OMGosh!
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:48pmIf I was Mr. Li Fuyan, I’d be wondering if any other items were removed while I was “under the (Chinese) knife.”
Report Post »Chinese doctor: “Funny thing is, he had an extra lung and kidney. We took gladly took care of the extra organs, also.”
dizzyinthedark
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:36amGotta love THEIR healthcare system–wow, it only took 4 years for this poor man to finally get that diagnosis and help he needed!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 6:21pmOur TSA would have found it during a body search and forced him to remove it before getting on a plane.
Report Post »LAM2
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:35amAnd we’re left to wonder whether the surgery eradicated the bad breath issue….please don’t leave us hanging….
Report Post »ronaldg261
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:26amOuch!!!
Report Post »JoeyBagaDonuts
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:35pmGot to love that Commie Health Care, it only took 4 years to find a knife in a guy’s head. Good thing it wasn’t a bullet their a lot smaller. Can‘t wait for Obama’s version of Commie Health Care to kick in here, then we can take pills for knives stuck in our heads too.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:58amJust remember that with Obama Care comes the confiscation of all our weapons so they won‘t need to be finding and removing any bullets, knives, scissors, pencils or any other sharp object he thinks could cause any medical emergency.
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