Doctors have been left mystified after removing a whole glass from the stomach of a 55-year-old man – who claims he swallowed the cup while drinking tea.
A surgical team operated on the man at a private hospital in Madipur in Bihar, India.
The patient, from Vaishali, was admitted to the hospital with constipation and severe abdominal pain.
He underwent an ultrasound and X-ray, where doctors found a “serious disturbance” in his intestines – which turned out to be a glass.
Doctors struggled to remove the glass from the rectum with an endoscopic procedure, and later had to operate to remove it.
The embarrassed patient claims he swallowed the glass while drinking tea – although doctors said this does not hold up due to the food pipe being too narrow for the object.
Dr Mahmudul Hasan, who headed the team of doctors operating on the patient, said: “How the glass got inside the body of the said patient, it is still a mystery.”
The patient is currently stable.
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