1.5lbs of nails, coins removed from Peruvian's stomach!Byline: ANI London, Nov 12 (ANI): Peruvian doctors have extracted nearly 1.5 pounds of metal - nails, coins, rusted copper wire and scrap metal - from a man's belly. Requelme Abanto, 26, is a construction worker, who had been eating metals for quite some time. fter the operation, Abanto said doctors called him a "hardware store", reported the Telegraph. Carlos Delgado This article is about the baseball player. For the Venezuelan president, see Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández (born June 25, 1972 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Mets. , a surgeon at the Cajamarca hospital, where Abanto was operated upon, said he was stunned to see a heap of metal in the patient's stomach. He explained that initially that had thought Abanto had appendicitis Appendicitis Definition Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix, which is the worm-shaped pouch attached to the cecum, the beginning of the large intestine. The appendix has no known function in the body, but it can become diseased. , but they were baffled to have found "a hole in his stomach". Dr Delgado added that Abanto's mental health was being assessed. Abanto told Peru's Channel 9 television that he might now eat metal in public "as sport". He revealed that he had swallowed 17 five-inch nails in a day, earlier in the year. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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