Lot of crazy things happen in medical business. This is one of them. Surgeons in Japan thought they were removing a tumor from a 49-year-old man who was suffering from abdominal pain in late May. Instead, they found a 25-year-old surgical towel that had crumpled into what looked like a softball-shaped tumor, Agence France-Presse reported. The patient apparently had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons left it in him after minor ulcer surgery. He went to Asahi General Hospital in late May after suffering pain. Doctors, at the time, found what they believed to be an 8-centimeter tumor. According to an Asahi General Hospital spokesman: "The towel was greenish-blue although we are not sure about its original color."
That is not unusual for surgeons to leave items in a person during surgery. I had a relative that had a piece of equipment left in his leg and later got staph. They opened up the wound and found it.
I saw a program of top 100 surgical mistakes and it's amazing what they had on there. There were a few where people were set on fire.
Can you believe that actually can happen? And did it take 25 years for it to start hurting?? Hope he at least makes some money.