Forceps removed after 18 years

Doctors in Vietnam have removed surgical forceps from a man who unknowingly carried them inside his body for 18 years, national television VTV reported.

Ma Van Nhat, 54, said the forceps had probably been left in his abdomen in 1998 when he had emergency surgery after a traffic accident.

Nhat had felt only occasional pain and a clinic had given him medicine for a suspected stomach ulcer. An X-ray late last year showed the forceps were to blame.