This X-ray reveals a cell phone lodged in a Salvadoran prisoner's lower intestine. According to news reports, the man is one of four prisoners who are members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang. The men were caught with cell phones, spare chips and a charger that they had attempted to smuggle, according to authorities at San Salvador's Zacatecoluca prison.
An X-ray showing a 6-1/2-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia in 2004. Skinner had an operation in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an x-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside. (Link)
A dog had a £1,000 operation to remove a rubber duck from its gut - 18 months after the bathroom toy vanished. The owners of Spike, the Patterdale terrier were astonished when they took their sick pet to the vet and discovered what had caused the problem. It was only after an X-ray that the truth emerged in the shape of a perfect outline of a rubber duck clearly visible in the dog's small intestine. Mr Smith then recalled how Spike had taken the toy from the bathroom in the summer of 2008.(Link)
The biggest challenge was to get the gun out without the damn thing discharging. They had to sedate the patient and she was taken to the OR for an exam under anesthesia. They put a bulletproof vest over the patient's body to protect the anesthesiologist in the event the gun went off, and had general surgery standing by. The OB-GYN who did the extraction reported a very tense moment when he perceived that the hammer was cocked and there appeared to be a shell in the chamber. An uneventful removal was followed by a moment of letdown when they realized that the device was not, in fact, a gun, but rather a butane torch/cigarette lighter shaped like a gun.
This actually makes sense when you look at the X-ray and realize that the other item in her vagina is a glass crack pipe and its rubber tubing. What good is a crack pipe without a lighter?(Link | Via)
This is the astonishing X-ray belonging to a young boy lucky to be alive after accidentally plunging a knife deep into his face. Astonishingly, the blade entered Ren Hanzhi's left cheek just below his eye at such an angle that it didn't permeate his brain. Doctors were able to remove it successfully - and the 13-year-old is set to make a full recovery.(Link | Via)
Anxious Karen Woolley used a metal detector to hunt for a missing diamond ring – and found it inside her three month-old puppy, Barney. Ms Woolley, the owner of a bread and breakfast, suspected that her three-month old cocker spaniel-cross pooch had apparently snaffled the family heirloom off a table and scanned him to get a bleeping confirmation. Barney was rushed to a vet and had an operation to remove the 100-year-old diamond encrusted ring, which was big enough to have killed him. ‘He was so tiny the ring could kill him as it passed through him,' said Ms Woolley, of Thrumpton, near Nottingham. Barney is now recovering at his home.(Link | Via)
