More than 600 iron nails surgically removed from man's stomach in Bengal

New Delhi: More than 600 iron nails were removed from a man's stomach in a rare surgery in state-run Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Monday.

As per reports, the man is mentally unstable and was admitted to the hospital after suffering from acute abdominal pain last month, his family members said.

"He is mentally disbalanced and has a habit of swallowing strange things. But we never imagined that there would be so many nails in his stomach," a relative of the patient said.

The doctors claimed the operation was successful and the patient is stable.

Describing the surgery as risky, surgeon Siddhartha Biswas, who headed the medical team, said the patient was now out of danger as the nails did not pierce or injure his stomach in any way in spite of being inside for days.

"The operation was risky as his stomach had become abnormally big and was completely filled with nails. But luckily it did not pierce the stomach," the doctor said.

"We partially cut his stomach and used a magnet to bring out the nails one by one. There were more than 600 nails inside. It was made sure that all the nails he swallowed, were taken out," he added.

(With IANS inputs)