Scissors in the Abdomen - Feb. 16, 2011(01 of30)
Open Image ModalAn X-ray shows a pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of Anne, a woman in Lyon, France, who complained of abdominal pain after a surgery. Five months after the operation, Anne realized the scissors had been forgotten in her womb when the point of the scissors pierced her navel following a coughing fit. (credit: AFP / Getty Images)
Face In A Testicular Ultrasound(02 of30)
Open Image ModalDoctors examining an ultrasound of a testicular tumor in Canada were shocked by the resemblance to a face in agony. "It was very ghoulish, like a man screaming in pain," said Doctor Naji Touma, who works at Queen's University, according to The Toronto Star. (credit:Queen's University )
Spear in man's head(03 of30)
Open Image ModalThese CT scans show a 6-inch spear lodged in the head of Emerson de Oliveira Abreu, who sought treatment at a hospital in Brazil in late March. The spear pierced his head during an underwater fishing accident. After doctors operated to remove the spear, Abreau said he would never fish underwater again. (credit:Ricardo Moraes, AP)
Prisoner X-rays in May 2006(04 of30)
Open Image ModalX-rays from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., on display in May 2006 show items such as bed springs and batteries that prisoners swallowed to gain trips to outside hospitals. (credit:Stan Gilliland, AP)
Blow Dart(05 of30)
Open Image ModalA 15-year-old had a blowgun dart stuck in his throat. Reproduced with permission from Pediatrics, Copyright @ by the AAP. Full text may be available from Pediatrics' website: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/. (credit:Pediatrics)
live ammo in skull(06 of30)
Open Image ModalA CT scan shows a 14.5 millimeter live round of ammunition lodged in the skull of an Afghan soldier. A U.S. military doctor successfully removed the unexploded round -- more than 2 inches long -- at the Bagram Air Field hospital in Afghanistan last month. (credit:U.S. Air Force / AP)
Steel balls and magnets inside a child, May 8, 2008(07 of30)
Open Image ModalAn 8-year-old girl from Indiana swallowed steel balls and magnets from a toy set in May. The child required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks. (credit:Jaspaar Herald / AP)
Cocaine Smuggler(08 of30)
Open Image Modal In this Monday Sept. 12, 2011 image of a CAT scan released by Brazilian Federal Police on Sept. 16, 2011, bags loaded with cocaine are seen inside the body of an unidentified man after he was arrested at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday. According to a federal police press release, the man is identified as a young Irish male who tried to board a flight to Brussels after swallowing 72 capsules containing a total of 830 grams (1.82 pounds) of cocaine. (credit:Brazilian Federal Police / AP)
Snake and blanket July 2006(09 of30)
Open Image ModalHoudini, a 12-foot python, swallowed an electric blanket in July 2006 that his owner put in his cage for warmth. The snake was doing fine after surgery. (credit:Dev Khalsa, AP)
Tired Traveler(10 of30)
Open Image ModalThis dozing drunk caught a free ride on the baggage belt at a Rome airport, and received a free full-body X-ray in the process. (credit:KTLA)
Nails in skull(11 of30)
Open Image ModalA nail gun shot six nails into construction worker Isidro Mejia's head during an April 2004 accident. He survived and was expected at the time to recover fully. (credit:Providence Holy Cross Medical Center / AP)
Knife in Face(12 of30)
Open Image ModalA stunning X-ray image shows a knife stuck deep inside a Chinese teenager's cheek. Ren Hanzhi, 13, tripped and fell while peeling an apple -- jamming himself in the face with a nearly 8-inch knife on Jan. 31. Amazingly, the blade did not strike the boy's brain and doctors were able to remove the knife, expecting him to make a full recovery. (credit:Quirky China News / Splash News)
Spearfishing Accident(13 of30)
Open Image ModalA Miami teen who impaled himself in the forehead in a spearfishing gun accident is very, very lucky, according to surgeons who were able to remove the long piece of metal that was lodged all the way through his brain. (credit:Jackson Memorial Hospital)
Pruning Shears(14 of30)
Open Image ModalIn this image provided by the University Medical Center in Tucson, a CT scan shows a pair of pruning shears embedded in the head of an 86-year-old Green Valley, Ariz., man before it was removed by Medical Center surgeons in Tucson on July 30, 2011. Leroy Luetscher was accidentally impaled through his eye socket after falling on the shears while working in his yard, the handle penetrating his eye socket and reaching down into his neck. He is expected to make a full recovery. (AP Photo/University Medical Center,Tucson, Arizona) (credit:University Medical Center Tucson / AP)
(15 of30)
Open Image ModalDante Autullo, a 32-year-old Chicago man, accidentally shot a 3.5 inch nail in his brain and didn't notice for more than 24 hours. In January of 2012, doctors at Advocate Christ Medical Center successfully removed the nail and replaced a piece of his skull with a mesh patch and titanium plate. (credit:AP)
Marilyn Monroe chest x-ray - June 28, 2010(16 of30)
Open Image ModalThree X-rays of Marilyn Monroe's chest and pelvis taken during a 1954 hospital visit have sold for more than 10 times their presale estimates, earning $45,000. (credit:Julien's Auctions, AFP / Getty Images)
Metal Bar Through Skull(17 of30)
Open Image ModalThis tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, show the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor's successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (credit:AP)
Alien Tumor -- Feb. 14, 2011(18 of30)
Open Image ModalWhen California vice principal Josh Abken told his doctor he was having persistent back pain about a year ago, the doctor took an X-ray. They discovered a soccer-ball sized "alien" tumor that had become as solid as a rock and even had growing tentacles. (credit:sacramento.cbslocal.com)
Surgical scissors in Australian woman(19 of30)
Open Image ModalA 6-inch pair of surgical scissors appears in the abdomen of Australian Pat Skinner in April 2004 -- 18 months after her initial operation. (credit:Rob Griffith, AP)
Real Smooth(20 of30)
Open Image ModalA 30-year-old Atlanta woman with a history of bulimia swallowed a knife while demonstrating that she no longer had a gag reflex for friends, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. (credit:The New England Journal of Medicine ©2012.)
Hitting The Nail On The Head(21 of30)
Open Image Modal Cutis Verticis Gyrata(22 of30)
Open Image ModalThe man has a condition called cutis verticis gyrata, which is when the scalp has "ridges and furrows resembling the brain's surface." (credit:NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE )
Invasive Species? Man Hospitalized With Eel In Butt(23 of30)
Open Image ModalPVC pipe in corpse in February 2006(24 of30)
Open Image ModalA film released in February 2006 shows PVC plumbing pipes put into a deceased person as part of an alleged body parts ring. Several people were charged in the case. (credit:Brooklyn District Attorneys Office / AP)
Lee Gardner's Fork, PRE-OP(25 of30)
Open Image ModalYeah, it's disgusting. Sorry about that. (credit:Caters News)
Fork In Tummy(26 of30)
Open Image ModalLee Gardner got a plastic fork stuck in his stomach. FOR 10 YEARS. Here's the fork in it's glory, after the operation. (credit:Caters News)
Nail in skull(27 of30)
Open Image ModalA nail rests in a South Korean man's skull in December 2004. He sought help for a bad headache and upon discovery said it likely happened four years earlier. (credit:Yonhap / AP)
Chair January 2007(28 of30)
Open Image ModalThe leg of a chair thrown outside a Melbourne, Australia, club in January 2007 speared Shafique el-Fahkri's eye socket down to his neck. He spent a month in intensive care but has mostly recovered. (credit:AAPImage / AP)
Prisoner who swallowed a cell phone, Sept. 2006(29 of30)
Open Image ModalCell phones were found in the intestines of four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said in September 2006. Suspicious prison officials took X-rays of each of the prisoners. (credit:Centros Penales, AP)
Chen Liu of China(30 of30)
Open Image ModalPolice in Sydney, Australia, released this X-ray of the skull of Chen Liu, 27, who died after being shot in the head with a nail gun 34 times. Liu's bound body was found in a river in November. The photo was released as part of a public plea for more information in the case. Liu is shown on the upper left in an undated photo. (credit:New South Wales Police / AP)