SYDNEY: Australian surgeons have removed a toothpick from a patient's swollen gut after she suffered weeks of severe abdominal pain.
Doctors in Melbourne said the toothpick was lodged in an inflamed area of the colon of the 70-year-old patient who had to go to hospital four times in a month for the pain, Xinhua news agency said, citing a report by the doctors in the BMJ medical journal released on Wednesday (Jan 3)
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