US EditionFrench hospital treats man with shell up his rectum
A 24-year-old man inserted a nearly 20 cm unexploded WWI shell into his rectum, requiring bomb disposal experts to safely neutralize the device at a Toulouse hospital.
- A French hospital in Toulouse treated a man who had inserted an 8-inch shell from 1918 into his rectum.
- Concerned about the risk of explosion, the medical team called a bomb disposal unit to safely remove the unexploded ordnance.
- The 24-year-old patient may face legal action for potential violations of French weapons legislation.
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The medical team of a hospital in southern France extracted from the rectum of a 24-year-old man a howitzer dating back to World War I.
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…
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