2cm bullet removed from Chinese farmer head after 23 years!
April 23rd, 2011 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANILondon, April 23 (ANI): Surgeons have removed a two-centimetre bullet from the head of a Chinese farmer after 23 years.
In 1988 Wang Tianqing, who lives in Zhangjiakouin city in northern China’s Hebei province, was knocked unconscious on his way home by a blow to the head.
“I thought I’d been hit by a slingshot,” the Telegraph quoted Wang as saying.
“I saw a man standing on a hill and thought he’d hit me,” Wang added.
He woke up in a hospital bed, was given anti-inflammatory drugs by the doctors and sent home.
Shortly afterwards he started having epileptic seizures which grew progressively worse over the next two decades.
On a return trip to the hospital for treatment for his convulsions, the bullet was spotted on his CAT scan.
Wang Zhiming, an attending surgeon from Neurosurgical Oncology department, said that the survival rate for being shot in the head would usually be one out of several thousand, but the bullet missed his brain’s main veins and had not injured his brainstem. (ANI)
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