Eww, Tracey, eww. --Aub
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:SouLive- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Skee OuiZy > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Japanese patient's 'tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel > > > > Japanese patient's 'tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel > > Wed Jun 4, 3:47 AM ET > > TOKYO (AFP) - Doctors who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a > "tumour" had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer -- but > the "growth" that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year- old > surgical towel. > > The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons at the > Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo left it in him after > an operation to treat an ulcer, a spokesman for the hospital said. > > The man, now 49, went in to another hospital in late May after suffering > abdominal pain. > > When examinations found what was believed to be an eight-centimetre > (3.2-inch) tumour, he underwent the operation to remove it. It was only then > that surgeons realised it was a towel. > > "The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original > colour," the Asahi General Hospital spokesman said, adding it had been > crumpled to the size of a softball. > > Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said. > > The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with > him over compensation or other measures, the official said. > > Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his > spleen removed. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SouLive Susan" group. > To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/SouLive-Susan?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
