US EditionFrench hospital treats man with shell up his rectum
- Hospital in Toulouse confirmed on Sunday it treated a patient admitted overnight Saturday to Sunday with a shell lodged in his rectum, according to la Depeche du Midi.
- La Depeche du Midi reported the 24-year-old patient told staff he had introduced the object himself.
- Operating-Room staff removed a collectible shell nearly 20 centimetres long, prompting a bomb-disposal team call while firefighters in Haute-Garonne provided fire protection.
- Officials reported the bomb-disposal team neutralized the device while the patient remained under observation at Rangueil hospital, according to the U.K. Daily Mirror.
- Reports identified the object as a decommissioned artillery shell from the end of the First World War, attracting coverage from la Depeche du Midi, AFP and the U.K. Daily Mirror.
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An unusual operation was performed at a hospital in Toulouse, France, on Sunday night after a 24-year-old man came to the emergency room with pain in his rectum. Doctors discovered that he had a World War I artillery shell stuck in his rectum. The local newspaper Le Parisien reported that bomb disposal experts had to come to the hospital to defuse the shell.
The memory of World War I and World War II continues to cause unusual episodes. Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse had to mobilize in the early morning of 1 January personnel from various health and military disciplines to resolve in the best possible way an unusual medical issue.
With severe pain, a 24-year-old in Toulouse in France went to the emergency room of a hospital. When the doctors recognized which object caused the pain, they demanded the war equipment clearance service.
A 24-year-old man went to the emergency room this Sunday in the French town of Toulouse with intense pain in the rectal area. What initially seemed like a common medical situation became a security incident when doctors discovered that the object lodged in his body was an artillery shell of the First World War. According to local authorities and media, the young man entered the hospital by his own foot during the night of Saturday to Sunday, and…
The story of a 24-year-old Frenchman in emergency after showing up at the hospital with a grenade of World War I in the rectum.
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