Doctors were flabbergasted after discovering that a Singapore man’s throat discomfort was caused by an eight-legged mollusk that had become stuck in his gullet.
The unnamed patient had reportedly first realized something was awry after he started vomiting following a meal that included the cephalopod.
The diner also had trouble swallowing, prompting him to pay a visit to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
...Doctors conducted a CT scan, which revealed a super-dense mass in the man’s esophagus.
A subsequent esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a gastrointestinal examination involving a small, flexible tube showed a tentacled octopus lodged two inches from the esophagus-stomach border like something out of Ridley Scott’s “Alien.”
After initial attempts to push or extract the interloper were unsuccessful, medics navigated the endoscope past the octopus into the stomach and retroflexed it.
They then used forceps to grasp the critter’s head and remove it from the patient.
Thankfully, the patient recovered well following surgery and was discharged after two days.
Apparently, food obstructions are among the most common problems encountered at the hospital, per the facility’s physicians, who say items will pass spontaneously in 80% to 90% of cases.
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