In Britian, a 76 year old woman had a felt-tip pen extracted from her stomach after swallowing it 25 years earlier.
In a case report recently published by the British Medical Journal, doctors explain that the woman was complaining of weight loss and diarrhea, and the results of a CT scan spotted the foreign object. Apparently years ago, she was investigating a spot in her throat when she slipped and swallowed it by mistake. Her husband and doctor dismissed her story as the x-ray done at the time was reported as normal.
Although the pen wasn't the cause of her symptoms, gastrointestinal specialists still decided that the pen should be surgically removed.
The most surprising part of the story? After swimming around in stomach acid for a quarter century, the pen still worked!
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