This Happens more often than it should!

[Franky]

Tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel


TOKYO (AFP) - 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.
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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.

All I can say is DAM!

[Kritters]

Hey Franky,

This is so true. Happens all the time. Leaving surgical instruments and such in after the operation. Just can't wait to get that nurse into the closet.

We should contact that guy to find out why he has such a strong physical constitution that would allow that cloth for over 20 years. What did he eat/drink?

Kritts

[megluth72]

That's a good point Kritters. I've heard stories like this before also and it seems a massive infection happens pretty quickly (within a year) around the lost item. It seems very odd to have it for 25 years. We definitely need to get a hold of his diet!