21 Real Crazy X-Rays
Unreal X Rays that actually happened!
Published 11 years ago in Ouch
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Eleven-year-old Chinese schoolboy Liu Cheong had a brush with death when his friend shot him in the head with a 16-inch arrow, according to numerous international media reports. The arrow entered his skull through the eye socket and lodged in the back of his head. Somehow, the boy was spared a fatal brain injury.
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A Chinese teenager slipped and stabbed himself in the face with a 7cm knife while peeling an apple. Ren Hanzhi's father recalled: "He was walking to the sofa while peeling the apple. Suddenly he slipped down and his face hit onto the sharp knife. I dared not pull out the knife as my son was screaming." Chief surgeon Peng Liwei, who operated to remove the knife, commented: "It's shocking. The knife, which is more than 20cm long, penetrated 7cm into his face. "The surgery was successful and the patient could recover fully in around a month."
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A Chinese man told hospital doctors he had been moving furniture around at home when he spotted a mouse. He picked up a steel bar and gave chase - but tripped and landed on the bar, which lodged in his anus. The doctors feared just pulling out the hooked bar could cause further injuries. Firefighters cut off the bar's protruding end before it was surgically removed.
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A 13-year-old slipped on an icy school floor in China. Xiao Lin fell forward onto a hook which embedded in his eye. A school handyman sawed the hook off the wall to free the lad, leaving 5cm sticking out of his head. Surgeon Yan Shijun commented: "The hook pierced his skull but was turned to the side by the impact. Any movement would have sent it into his brain and he could have died on the spot." He added: "He has lost his right eye but he's very lucky to be alive at all."
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A Chinese man was complaining of stomach pains.The man, was forced to seek medical help after failing to extract a bottle with a curved piece of wire. When medical staff quizzed him on the pain, he claimed he did not know what was causing his discomfort.But he suddenly remembered what had happened when staff presented him with clear X-rays showing the bottle and wire inside of him. He admitted inserting the bottle at home before it became stuck and said he used a steel wire in an attempt to get it back out in a moment of panic.
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Eleven-year-old Chinese schoolboy Liu Cheong had a brush with death when his friend shot him in the head with a 16-inch arrow, according to numerous international media reports. The arrow entered his skull through the eye socket and lodged in the back of his head. Somehow, the boy was spared a fatal brain injury.
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This X-ray shows how, during a fall, a car key penetrated the eyelid of 17-month-old Nicholas Holderman of Kentucky, reaching his brain. While doctors initially believed that the object had ruptured Nicholas' eyeball, another team of specialists later confirmed that the boy had sustained no permanent damage.
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This X-ray reveals a cell phone lodged in a Salvadoran prisoner's lower intestine. The man is one of four prisoners who are members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang. The men were caught with cell phones, spare chips and a charger that they had attempted to smuggle, according to authorities at San Salvador's Zacatecoluca prison.
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The 5-centimeter nail shown in this X-ray was found after a man came to a Seoul, South Korea, hospital complaining of a severe headache. After examining and interviewing the man, doctors speculated that the nail had been the result of an accident four years before his visit, but that the man did not know the nail was lodged in his head.
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8-year-old Haley Lents of Indiana swallowed 10 magnets and 20 steel balls from a Magnetix toy set. The magnets and balls attracted one another within her digestive tract, ripping a total of eight holes in her intestines and forcing her parents to rush her to the hospital for emergency surgery. Lents later told reporters that the magnets and steel balls "looked like candy."
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