Medical staff at a hospital in Balual city, Haryana, India, was stunned after removing a 20-inch knife from a young liver in a surgery that lasted about 3 hours.
According to the Indian newspaper "The Tribune," the doctors used ultrasound, tomography, and other tests, to locate the knife that had penetrated the liver, and part of it was stuck in the duodenum. As a result, the patient began bleeding, which led to sepsis.
For his part, Professor of Gastroenterology at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences Nihar Rangan Dash said: "We have searched for similar cases in medical references, but no cases have been reported to swallow such large and sharp knives."
He continued: "The knife could have penetrated the esophagus easily and entered the trachea or heart or touch the vessels on its way from the mouth to the liver through the duodenum."
According to the newspaper, a tube was inserted into the patient's liver, to absorb 100 ml of pus for five days.