Sweden's medical negligence board, HSAN, is to investigate the case of a boy who had a six centimetre lollipop stick up his nose for eleven months. None of the seven doctors who examined him in that time managed to find it, reported Expressen.The stick was not found until the spring, when it was discovered embedded in inflamed tissue.
And this:
A German woman who fell on a pencil 55 years ago has just had most of it removed from her head in a complex operation. But the tip will remain in her brain for ever.
A woman who lived with an 8-centimeter (3.1-inch) pencil lodged in her brain for 55 years has had most of it removed in a complex operation. She is now looking forward to a life without headaches and nosebleeds and hopes to also regain her sense of smell.
"When I was four years old I fell down in Dessau with a pencil in my hand. The pencil bored its way through my skin -- and disappeared in my head," Margret Wegner, 59, told the mass circulation newspaper Bild. "It was incredibly painful."
The pencil missed her optic nerve and a major artery by just millimeters. A doctor treated the wound, but no one dared to operate on her brain. She decided to have the life-threatening operation after 55 years, and it was successfully carried out by a surgeon in a Berlin hospital last week.
Most of the pencil -- six centimeters of it -- was removed but the 2-centimeter-long tip has grown in so tightly that it will remain lodged in her brain.
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