10 Incredible Incidents Caught by X-rays

Anyone out there considering becoming an x-ray technician should really check out these images.


Pepsi bottle lodged in a man’s lower intestine.
  At the Nishtar hospital in Multan, Pakistan, surgeon Abdul Manan displays the X-ray of a glass bottle lodged in a man’s lower intestine. The man, who was 60 years old, reportedly required removal of the Pepsi bottle after armed thieves assaulted him with it before robbing him of his two buffaloes. (Link)





The man who survived being stabbed in the brain.
Michael Hill is notable for having survived being stabbed in the brain with a 20 cm (8 in) survival knife on April 25, 1998.The knife was the largest object ever removed from a human skull.

While at a friend’s residence in Jacksonville, Florida, Hill answered the door and an unknown person stabbed him in the skull. He then walked down the street to another friend’s house.

Hill’s arrival and treatment at the Shands Jacksonville Trauma center was documented and broadcast on the TLC series Trauma: Life in the E.R..

The X-ray with an eight inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Auditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York’s Times Square. (Link)




A rather unfortunate nail-gun accident.
A Los Angeles construction worker had six nails driven into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun. (Link)




Scissors left in woman after surgery.
An X-ray shows the 6.7 inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner of Sydney, Australia on April 20.

The woman had part of her colon removed at Sydney’s St. George Hospital in May 2001. But she said that she continued to suffer intense pain in her abdomen for months after the operation.Eventually, she demanded doctors x-ray her abdomen. They did and discovered the 6.7-inch pair of scissors, which were removed in October 2002. (Link)




The American toddler who got a set of car keys lodged in his brain. 
 A toddler has been hailed a miracle after getting a set of keys lodged in his brain. Nicholas Holderman fell on his parents’ car keys. One entered his eyelid and penetrated his brain

Miraculously the American tot has since made a full recovery. (Link)




Man accidentally swallows a pair of scissors while laughing.
X-rays showed the 9cm long and 4cm wide scissors fully entered esophagus, with the sharp top angling up to the epiglottis.

Chinese surgeons saved a man’s life after he accidentally swallowed a pair of nail scissors he was using to clean his teeth.

Lin Kong had borrowed a four-inch-long pair of nail scissors to use instead of a toothpick to clean his teeth after a meal.But as one of his friends told a joke, the 27-year-old laughed and swallowed the clippers. (Link)




The woman who swallowed an entire canteen of cutlery.
Surgeons in Rotterdam in the Netherlands were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 different items of cutlery in the 52-year-old woman’s stomach.

They rushed her to surgery in a desperate attempt to remove the dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside her body one by one.

The astonishing images were actually taken over 30 years ago – but they were published for the first time this week in a Dutch medical magazine.She had been diagnosed as suffering from a borderline personality disorder that left her with an urge to eat forks and spoons.

She never ate knives, however – and could not explain why not. (Link)




X-ray reveals rubber duck inside terrier.
The owners of Spike the Patterdale terrier were astonished when they took their sick pet to the vet and discovered what had caused the problem. The dog has had a £1,000 operation to remove a rubber duck from its gut – 18 months after the bathroom toy vanished. (Link)




The man who tried to steal a £1,750 engagement ring by swallowing it.
A lovelorn man who tried to steal a £1,750 engagement ring by swallowing it was caught after police ran a metal detector over his stomach.
Simon Hooper, who had wanted the ring to propose to his girlfriend, was jailed for 12 weeks by magistrates in Blandford, Dorset, after admitting theft.

He went into a shop in Dorchester last November and gulped the ring down while jeweler Fred Burgess was distracted.

Last night Mr Burgess said the ring was proving hard to sell because people knew ‘where it had been’. (Link




Miracle as boy survives after arrow shot through his skull.
It went through 11-year-old Liu Cheong’s eye socket, completely through his head and was only stopped by the back of his skull.

“If the arrow had been shot with just a bit more force, it would have come out the back of his head,” said doctors at Jida Hospital in Changchun, eastern China.

After brain scans and x-rays, doctors began to cut away parts of his skull to remove the arrow without damaging optic nerves or brain tissue. The boy only survived because the arrow had miraculously missed his brain. (Link)


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