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.Doctors conducted a computed tomography scan, which revealed a super-dense mass in the man’s esophagus.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.
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.Jam Press/AGA Institute
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