A broken piece of a thermometer was lodged in a woman’s bum for 22 years.
The patient – named only as Ms Hu – sat on the measuring instrument when she was a young girl in primary school.
The 2cm-long piece remained lodged in her left buttock for over two decades.
READ MORE: Young woman, 22, found dead in ‘suspicious’ circumstances after jet-ski trip
Her doctor said she was “lucky there wasn’t any mercury inside”.
Ms Hu, who lives in Wuhan, China, explained: “I was sitting at my desk when a classmate asked to borrow my rubber.
“I dropped it on the floor and went to look for it.
“My classmate also searched for it under the desk, but he happened to be holding a thermometer in his hand, which was resting on my chair.
“I found it before him, so I went to sit down.
“The thermometer became stuck in the flesh of my left buttock.”
She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors attempted to remove the foreign object, as reported by Need To Know.
Ms Hu said: “When they took it out, it was much shorter.
“I started crying and said it shouldn’t be like that.”
She added: “They did another X-ray, but this time it didn’t show anything because the glass was transparent; I guess it didn’t show up on the scan at the time.”
However, the object appeared in a 3D CT scan last month after Ms. Hu suffered a cycling injury and was concerned about a sacral fracture.
When doctors observed the detailed image, they clearly saw the shape of the broken thermometer piece lodged behind her pelvis.
Dr Shang Ranran, attending physician at Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, said: “It was about 2cm long.
“It was lucky there wasn’t any mercury inside.
“If so, it could have caused mercury poisoning and other very dangerous conditions.”
READ MORE: Foreign fighter, 29, who told wife he’d return ‘in a few days’ dies in Ukraine ambush
