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The tag abdomen on WindowsForum.com covers a thread about a medical incident where surgical scissors were left inside a patient's abdomen after surgery. The post discusses the patient's experience of postsurgery abdominal pains and the discovery of the forgotten instrument via X-ray. This content is not related to Windows, Microsoft, hardware, enterprise IT, security, updates, troubleshooting, AI, or developer topics. It is a general interest story about a medical error.
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X-Ray Reveals Scissors Left in Patient's Abdomen
A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on. After a woman, Anne, in Lyon, France, complained of postsurgery abdominal pains, an X-ray revealed a pair of 4-inch-long...- cybercore
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