Her surgeon said it was an infection. Seven months later, a scan at a different clinic told a very different story.

A 57-year-old man in Venezuela has died after surgeons accidentally left a pair of scissors in his stomach during a botched surgery. The patient has been identified as Ivan Chavez, who was undergoing ...

A woman in India endured five years of suffering after a roughly 4.3-inch-long pair of scissors was left inside her stomach during a C-section. Harsheena Ashraf, from the Indian state of Kerala, filed ...

Ma Van Nhat, now 54, underwent surgery in 1998 after a car accident and only recently discovered that doctors had left an unwelcome gift behind when they closed him up. Doctors discovered the ...

A Vietnamese man has had scissors removed from his abdomen which were left behind during surgery 18 years ago, after reporting a stomachache that was nearly two decades in the making. Ma Van Nhat, now ...

An Australian woman demanded an explanation today from a Sydney hospital where where a pair of scissors were left in her abdomen after surgery and said she planned to sue. Tue, 20 Apr, 2004 - 19:00 An ...

Health minister Veena George has on Saturday directed the additional chief secretary (health) to conduct a probe after a woman filed a complaint that a pair of scissors was left inside her abdomen ...