This patient temporarily had a stomach of steel.
Indian doctors were stunned when they were tasked with removing a steel cup from a man's stomach.
An unnamed man from Maharajganj district has been complaining of stomach pains for several days, and despite seeing several doctors, no treatment seems to have worked.
Later he met with his Dr. Lal Bahadur Siddharth at Siddharth Hospital in Jaunpur, who took an X-ray and discovered cups in his body.
The patient underwent rush surgery on his August 6th, and doctors succeeded in removing a cup the size of his hand through what appeared to be an incision in his stomach.
A 73-second video shows a procedure that begins with one doctor cleaning the stomach area, carefully removing the silver cup, and turning the bottom of the object upwards.
The medical staff look in disbelief as the surgeon lifts the cup for the camera.
A man working as a laborer has recovered, according to Jam Press. .
Medical experts hypothesized that the cup reached the stomach after being inserted into the man's anus.
Doctors say the man was heavily intoxicated with three strangers after returning from the grocery store where he had gone to buy vegetables.
By the time he was sober, the strangers had disappeared, and doctors were unsure whether the man had pushed a cup into his rectum himself or had been assaulted.
According to the Clinical Case Reports Journal, this incident is surprisingly not uncommon, with similar cases being reported in men aged 30 to 40 around the world.
40} In Iran, a man had a plastic water bottle removed from his anus. Meanwhile, a Florida man had to have his driver surgically removed from his rectum.
