Surgeons in Shanghai have operated on a 50-year-old Chinese man to remove a chopstick that he swallowed 28 years ago, state media reported. Skip related content
The man, identified by his surname Zhang, had gone decades without having the chopstick removed because it had not caused him any trouble, the official China Daily reported on Wednesday.
Zhang thought he had completely digested the chopstick until he started having stomach problems and sought medical attention after he passed out, the Oriental Morning Post newspaper reported.
The surgeons slowly extracted it through a small incision in his stomach, the report said.
Neither report had an explanation for why the man swallowed the chopstick, saying only that he was in "an agitated emotional state" at the time.
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