Man Goes To Hospital With Complaints Of Vomitting, Doctors Find A Whole Octopus Stuck In Food Pipe
Man Goes To Hospital With Complaints Of Vomitting, Doctors Find A Whole Octopus Stuck In Food Pipe | See Pics JE News Desk: A person in Singapore complained of vomitting for last several days when he visited a hospital. When the doctors ran tests on him, they found a whole octopus stuck in his oesophagus or the food pipe. He had started throwing up immediately after eating a meal that included, you guessed it right, an Octopus. Several leading medical journals covered this incident that occurred in 2018. The 55-year-old man, whose identity wasn’t revealed in any journal, visited the Tan Tock Seng hospital with acute onset of dysphagia, a condition that marks the inability to swallow any solid or liquid food, according to the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal. “A computed tomography scan was performed revealing esophageal dilation with obstruction by a hyperdense mass,” the journal said in its study of the case. Computed Tomography scan is the full-form of CT scan, a ...