Delhi doctors remove two-inch-long metal spring from 14-month-old`s food pipe
Doctors at AII India Institute of Medical Sciences successfully performed a complex medical procedure to save the life of a 14-month-old girl who had swallowed a two-inch-long metal spring, it said on Thursday, February 5.
The metal spring stuck in the oesophagus, also known as the food pipe, was successfully removed after an endoscopic surgery, AIIMS said in an official statement.
The child, a resident of Yamunanagar, was brought to the hospital after suffering from continuous vomiting for about a week and not eating for two days.
“During the examination, an X-ray revealed a large metal spring lodged in the upper part of the child`s oesophagus,” AIIMS said, "with ulcerations extending along the mucosa".
“The spring was stuck on the upper part of the food pipe. And the thickness of...










