Pencil Removed from Man's Head

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Pencil Removed from Man's Head May 30th 2013, 06:31 A 24-year-old man from Afghanistan lived for many years with a pencil lodged inside his head, said German surgeons. The patient, had complained of impaired vision in his right eye, headaches and a discharge from his right nostril. Asked how the pencil had become lodged in his head, he said he only remembered a childhood accident about 15 years earlier where he fell and suffered a strong nosebleed. A medical presentation on the 2011 case at Aachen University Hospital was presented at a conference in the western city of Essen this week and sent on to AFP on Wednesday. Surgeons spotted the seven-centimetre (2.7-inch) pencil, which had lodged in the back of the throat and damaged the eye socket, in a Computerised Tomography scan. After the surgery, the unnamed patient made a quick recovery and was released from hospital within days, the presentation says, although the man's vision remained impaired. Source-AFP

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