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Summary Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years.
A senior official at the Yuxi City Peoples Hospital said that, Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort.Fuyan 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. Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it.Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospitals stomatology department said, 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.In an interview, Fuyan 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 Yorks Montefiore Medical Center, said X-ray images showed the knife sitting behind the mans throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures. Flamm added that he was still surprised at the time the blade supposedly spent in the mans body.
