Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person - was cut out during an emergency op on the 45-year-old patient, who is just 1.45 metres (4'9") tall. Before the…
A terrified baby needed 50 stitches to her face after a savage attack by a neighbour's escaped pit bull. Cosmetic surgeons had to reconstruct the infant's face after her horrified parents rushed her to hospital in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. Local media said she needed 50 stitches to her…
This is the baffling haul of metal objects surgeons removed from a woman's stomach after she went to hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The 25-year-old - not named in local media - had been taken to Van Training and Research Hospital in eastern Turkey in agony. Scans revealed her stomach…
Surgeons have removed 74 magnetic beads from a 10-year-old boy's bladder after his parents brought him to hospital with agonising stomach pains. The boy - from Changsha, Hunan province, southern China - refused to say why he was in pain until surgeons took scans on July 13. Horrified medics saw…
Surgeons have removed a screw from a two-year-old girl's nose after she pushed it right the way up her nostril and it got stuck. The incident took place in the municipality of Pauini, in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, on the morning of 4th April. The girl and her…
Surgeons have extracted a wooden toothpick from a woman's liver after she went to A&E with stomach pain. The young woman, name and age not reported, presented herself at the emergency room of an unnamed hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus, complaining of acute stomach pain and fever on an…
A man in Shanghai has had nearly 200 bladder stones removed after doctors found blood in his urine. The man, who has only been named as Zhang, went to the Department of urology at Tinglin Hospital, which is located in the city of Shanghai, which is the country's most populous…
A stunning female model who was severely injured by a leopard featured in Panasonic plasma TV commercials during a photoshoot in Germany and was immediately operated by surgeons will have to bear her facial scars for life. Model Jessica Leidolph, 36, who also worked as an animal rights activist and…
Patients in Germany can opt to put on a headset complete with audiovisual glasses and look on the bright side of life while watching the Life of Brian as doctors open them up. The scheme to help patients avoid anxiety by watching a film is taking place at the Vivantes-Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum…
This is the moment surgeons operating on an infant suffering from five days of vomiting discover a large water bead toy obstructing her intestines. The nine-month-old from Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province in north-western China, was diagnosed with a severe bowel obstruction on 6th July, according to a report by…