- The X-ray picture shows a 5-centimeter nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient’s skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man’s head four years ago in an accident but the man didn’t know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery last Saturday. (AP Photo/Yonhap).
2. This X-ray released by New York’s Montefiore Medical Center, Monday, July 16, 2007, shows a screw that was inserted in the broken neck of Paul Robinson, of Kirkland, Wash. Robinson, 53, was in the steep upper deck of Yankee Stadium with his wife and son July 8, 2007, when an unidentified man above him fell down several rows of seats, breaking Robinson’s vertebra. (AP Photo/Montefiore Medical Center)
3. Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (AP Photo/photo released by Providence Holy Cross … more
4. An X-ray showing a 17centimeter (6.7 inches) pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, April 20, 2004. Mrs Skinner had an operation at St.George hospital in Sydney’s south in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an x-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
5. In this undated Metropolitan Police handout, x-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a five inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth, south London, last November. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Police, HO)
6. This photo taken aug. 6, 2011 and released Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 by the Cicero Police Department shows an x-ray revealing a diamond ring inside Wilfredo Gonzalez-Cruz, 30, of Chicago, that he allegedly stole from the home of a women in Cicero, Ill., and then and swallowed. Gonzalez was arrested Friday, aug. 5 and authorities recovered the ring after waiting for it to complete its journey through his body. (AP Photo/Cicero Police Department)
7. In this undated photo released by the New South Wales Police on Friday, April 24, 2009, an X-ray image of the skull of Chinese man Chen Liu is shown. Liu’s badly decomposed body was found in marshland in Sydney’s south, Nov. 1 2008, after being shot repeatedly in the head with a high-powered nail gun. (AP Photo/New South Wales Police, HO)
8. An undated X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set on May 8, 2008. The child required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks. (AP Photo/The Jaspaar Herald)
9. This image provide by the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona shows the x-ray of an 86 year-old man, Leroy Luetscher, who was accidentally impaled through his eye socket with pruning shears at his home on July 30, 2011. While working in his yard, Luetscher dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed in the ground point-side down. When Mr. Luetscher went to pick up the shears, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle. The … more ….
10. A doctor displays an X-ray of Mohammad Yusuf’s stomach that shows a liquor bottle, in Patna, India, Thursday, June 7, 2007. Robbers accosted Yusuf, 30, and shoved the bottle up his rectum when he resisted. The bottle was successfully removed through surgery Thursday. (AP Photo/A.P.Dube, Hindustan Times)
11. This image provided by the Direction of Penal Centers of El Salvador shows an x-ray taken of one of four prisoners at a maximum security Salvadoran prison in Zacatecoluca, 35 miles southeast of the capital of El Salvador. Four cellular telephones were found in the intestines of as many prisoners in El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. The discovery happened Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca after … more
12. In this undated photo, an X-ray image of Chinese woman, Luo Cuifen, 29, released by Richland International Hospital, needles are seen in her body. Chinese surgeons planned to begin removing 23 needles from Luo, possibly imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place, a hospital spokesman said Monday, Sept. 10, 2007. In many parts of China, baby boys are still heavily favored over girls because … more
13. A x-ray made on February 13, 2011 in Lyon, shows a pair of surgical pliers in the abdomen of Anne, a women who complained of abdominal pain after a surgery. Six months after her surgical operation, Anne realized she had a pair of surgical pliers which had been forgotten in her womb, when the point of the pliers pierced her navel following a “good fit of coughing” on last February 11. AFP PHOTO
14. An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York’s Times Square. Ripley’s Times Square site will house the ultimate in the odd and bizarre including 24 shrunken heads, a 3,197 lb meteorite and a section of the Berlin Wall. (AP Photo/ Ripley’s Believe It Or Not)… more
15. An X-ray of an four foot long pine snake who swallowed a couple of light bulbs is on display during the grand opening of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York’s Times Square. (AP Photo/ Ripley’s Believe It Or Not)
16. A pre-surgery X-ray of Houdini, a 12-foot (3.6-meter) Burmese python that swallowed an entire electric blanket _ with the electrical cord and control box, is shown in Ketchum, Idaho, Wednesday, July 19,
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