The rare condition is called Boerhaave syndrome, defined as a life-threatening, spontaneous rupture of the esophagus ...

Doctors at a private Delhi hospital successfully removed a moisturiser bottle lodged in a young woman's intestine using sigmoidoscopy, avoiding surgical intervention. The 27-year-old patient had ...

Doctors in Anhui, China, discovered a toothbrush lodged in his small intestine. According to Yang, he accidentally swallowed ...

During a routine endoscopy and imaging scan, doctors were shocked to find a long, thin plastic object in his duodenum, the first section of the small intestine ...

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If your child tells you they've swallowed a coin, it may have actually been a button battery. If your child doesn't tell you, ...

A Chinese man underwent surgery to remove a toothbrush from his intestine, which he had swallowed 52 years ago as a child.

The man, identified as Yang, said he remembered swallowing the toothbrush at the age of 12 but was too scared to tell his ...

A 29-year-old Chinese man had a 15cm ceramic spoon removed from his intestine six months after accidentally swallowing it while intoxicated in Thailand. He experienced abdominal pain and sought ...

Yang faced no health issues because of the toothbrush that he swallowed as a 12 year old. It finally started to wriggle, and ...

In an astonishing case that has left the medical community stunned, a 64-year-old man in China has lived for over five ...

While on vacation, Yang was drinking and tried to use a coffee spoon to induce vomiting.