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Saudi surgeons remove toothbrush after 22 years in patient's stomach RIYADH, Tuesday (AFP) A Saudi medical team removed a toothbrush from the stomach of a man who had swallowed it 22 years ago, the official SPA news agency reported Tuesday. The toothbrush caused the 70-year-old patient no ill effects until a few days before he was operated on, said Dr Abdulrahman al-Zahrani, the head of the team at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital in the western town of Taif. The operation was successful, Zahrani added. |
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