Doctors remove 8-inch metal spoon swallowed by teenager

Doctors at a Chinese hospital said they removed an 8-inch metal spoon from the stomach of an 18-year-old student who accidentally swallowed the utensil.

Footage from the hospital in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province shows doctors reviewing X-ray images of the long spoon inside the teenager’s body before she underwent surgery to remove it, according to UPI. The spoon was successfully removed in a two-hour surgery April 9. Doctors said the girl told them she waited three days to seek medical attention for the spoon swallowing because she wanted to ¿nish her school exams.

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NEWSFLARE An 18-year-old girl in China swallowed an 8-inch-long metal spoon.