A man in Tanzania who came to the hospital complaining of pain and pus discharge from his right nipple was shocked to learn that he had been living with a large knife lodged in his chest for eight years, the country’s media reported.
Doctors at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania recently published a most unusual case study in the journal, National Library of Medicine.
They wrote about a 44-year-old generally healthy man who came to the hospital with a 10-day-long history of white pus discharge from his right nipple.
He denied having any chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough, or fever, but when asked if he had anything notable to tell doctors, he recalled a violent fight eight years ago, during which he sustained several cuts to his face, back, chest, and abdomen.
Doctors had managed to suture the wounds back then, and he had lived a mostly uneventful life ever since, up until his nipple started oozing pus.
Unable to determine the cause of the infection, doctors ordered an X-ray and were shocked to see a large knife lodged in the man’s chest.
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