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An old woman visiting her doctor recently was found to have in her stomach a pen she swallowed by accident 25 years ago, the Daily Mail reported.

An urgent investigation revealed areas of the 76-year-old woman's large intestine had become inflamed.

When questioned, the patient remembered that 25 years before she had used a felt-tip pen to poke her tonsils while looking at them in a mirror. However, she had then fallen forward off a step and swallowed the pen by accident.

Her husband had dismissed her story after abdominal X-rays came up normal.

It was removed under general anesthetic and amazingly the doctors found the pen was still in working order. （點擊《每日郵報》查看原文）

吞食鋼筆25年后取出

???????據英國《每日郵報》報道，一位老婦看病時竟發現自己胃里有支25年前不慎吞下的鋼筆。

???????緊急檢查顯示，這名76歲的老婦大腸已被感染。

???????醫生問詢時，她稱自己曾在25年前對著鏡子，通過簽字筆按壓，查看扁桃體，突然失足前傾一步，不慎吞下鋼筆。

???????當時腹部X射線顯示一切正常，她的丈夫便沒當回事。

???????通過全麻手術，這支筆已被取出；令人驚訝的是，醫生發現它依然能用。

(China.org.cn December 22, 2011)