A toddler has appeared to swallow a two-inch needle, which doctors found lodged in his liver.
The two-year-old boy was taken to JK Lon hospital in Jaipur, India, after his parents brought him in with complaints of the child crying in pain.
An X-ray scan showed the needle inside his chest and the boy was referred to Sawai Man Singh hospital for further treatment.
There, cardio surgeon Dr Anil Sharma and their team successfully removed the object in a 90-minute surgery on 23 February.
In a video taken in hospital, the team can be seen operating on the child as they remove the needle – which measured two inches long.
The needle reportedly passed through the lungs and into the liver before becoming stuck – but it is unclear how it came to be inside the child’s body, with the only explanation offered that he could have swallowed it.
Even then, doctors were confused as an ingested object would travel to the stomach and damage the intestines, rather than through the lungs and into the liver.
The boy was discharged on Wednesday (2 March) and had minor liver damage after the incident.
