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Japanese patient's 'tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel

TOKYO - DOCTORS who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a 'tumour' had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer - but the 'growth' that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel.

The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo left it in him after an operation to treat an ulcer, a spokesman for the hospital said.

The man, now 49, went in to another hospital in late May after suffering abdominal pain.

When examinations found what was believed to be an eight-centimetre (3.2-inch) tumour, he underwent the operation to remove it. It was only then that surgeons realised it was a towel.

'The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour,' the Asahi General Hospital spokesman said, adding it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.

Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said.

The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with him over compensation or other measures, the official said.

Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his spleen removed. -- AFP


http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2...ry_244350.html

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raph

simply speechless.... towel inside a body...big wuha comin up for the hospital..

shypineapple

wow.....25yrs inside a human body o.O

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princessLUCK

so unbelievable

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JayDee

=.=
I remember also got a similar case where the doctor de things was inside the patient de stomach or something after a operation.
Then after don know how many years that person stomach also got problem,then go hospital see then find out.

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freedomkira

unbelievable

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zzz....towels...forceps...incision scissors...what's next? the whole respiratory machine thingy..? such careless doctors...i dun understand how a doc can leave something inside a person's body after operation and not notice it...dun they hafta sew the opening back..? zzz....

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jovylee

how can they make such a mistake

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Casper26

Hais, sometimes, doc performing surgery ain't doing everything right?
How could towel be left there?

Siong2

Wah, this is going to cost a bomb.

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guantanamera

lol unlucky fellow

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Huaikong

25 years of painful towel......lol

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