Doctors in Egypt removed a mobile phone from the stomach of a patient who swallowed the device several months ago, according to local reports.
The Aswan University Hospital admitted the patient on Friday night suffering severe abdominal pain.
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On examination medical staff found the man was suffering severe infection and stomach cramps.
Doctors carried x-rays and lab tests before they decided that his condition required urgent surgery.
They said an operation was needed to extract a “foreign body” inside the patient’s stomach.
Doctors then realized he had swallowed a small phone, which subsequently led to preventing food from being digested, and caused painful cramps.
The patient’s condition is stable.
