Full title: A 44-year-old man went to the hospital after pus began oozing from his chest, where doctors discovered a knife that had been embedded in his body for eight years. According to the report, he showed no signs of chest pain, breathing problems, coughing, or fever, and was otherwise in good health.
A 44-year-old male Tanzanian presented to our facility with a 10-day history of pus discharge below the right nipple. He denied any chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough, or fever. The patient recalled being involved in a violent altercation 8 years ago, during which he sustained multiple cuts to his face, back, chest, and abdomen. Following the incident, he sought first aid at a primary health facility, where his wounds were sutured; however, no radiological investigation was conducted at that time as hemostasis was achieved, despite of no suspicious of foreign body retention in part injured, there was no facilities for radiological investigations. He had an uneventful course over the next 8 years until his current presentation.
Lucky they didn’t go straight for the MRI
why don’t they have metal detectors on the doors leading to the MRI?
Possibly because a standard magnetometer cannot detect reactive elements down to the level that would be affected by a giant insane field associated with an MRI?
A simple xray, or a pass-through of a single metal detector at a court house is one thing….
Basically tattooing itself can be a very wild scenario. I caught artists in Tunisia making do and had a friend shooting cats in Cuba as we provided ink.
Could you imagine being the person who stabbed him and just watching him walk away and not even react?
Plus he stole your knife!
They were so intrigued by the experience of cutting into someone and seeing them live through the event that they turned away from a life of crime and went to school to become a surgeon. Now, 8 years later, a familiar face shows up in the waiting room…
Dibs on the movie rights
Just give me a cut.
Hang on, I should rephrase that.
Yeah, you should take another stab at it.
Where’s the article?
Link to article in spoiler. This is your warning, graphic images are embedded in the paper (wound with draining pus and photos from surgery).
Kivuyo, Nashivai et al. “An eight-year asymptomatic retention of a knife blade in the chest: a case report”, Journal of surgical case reports vol. 2025,6 rjaf325. 31 May. 2025, doi:10.1093/jscr/rjaf325
That is not a small knife. What a crazy story. Thanks for the link.
The CT scan and its reconstruction are wild.
From the surgery image, which I won’t repost, I wonder if the handle broke off before/during the attack, or if it was broken down in the thoracic cavity?
