Pain in the neck: doctors find Chinese man’s aches and numbness caused by needles inside his body
PUBLISHED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 4:17pm
UPDATED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 4:17pm
Kathy Gao
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Photos: Chutian Metropolis Daily
Doctors examined a Chinese man suffering from neck aches and numbness in his hands found he had two needles stuck inside his body, mainland media reports.
Surgeons have since removed the needles, which appeared to be moving around near to the abdomen of the man from Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, Chutian Metropolis Daily reported on Friday.
Both needles had already started to corrode, which led doctors to believe that they had probably been inside his body for the past two years.
The discovery was made after the man, identified in the report only by his family name, Wu, was given a computer scan at a hospital after complaining of pains in his neck and numbness in his hands.
Wu, 43, said he had no idea how the needles had come to be stuck inside his body.
One needle, which was 2cm long, was removed from close to his abdominal cavity. The other needle, which was more than 5cm long, was found inside the abdominal cavity.
Examinations carried out on two different occasions also revealed that the positions of the needles had changed, suggesting that the needles had been moving inside his body, the report said.
Doctors at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine were able to remove both needles using minimally invasive surgery.
