19 February,2011 07:49 AM IST | | Agencies
A 37-year-old man is recovering at the People's Hospital of Yuxi, Yunnan Province after a surgery last Saturday to remove a blade that had spent four years in his head.
The strange discovery astonished doctors of Yuanjiang County Hospital, as well as patient Li Fu's family, after an X-ray examination on January 24, when Li, puzzled by his bad breath and headaches, went there for examination.
"A miracle of miracles: a knife pierced his skull and stayed in the nerve and vascular intensive area," said neurosurgeon Luo Zhiwei.
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The blade entered through his right lower jaw, went past his tongue, and came to a rest with the tip almost touching his brain.
Doctors carried out a four-hour operation to take out the 1.8-centimeter-wide blade. Li Fu's little brother said that in a robbery four years ago Li was stabbed in his right lower jaw.
