“There were 17 strange objects found at the level of his stomach and colon,” said Dr. Julio Acevedo, one of the surgeons who operated on Zarate. The black-and-white scans showed Zarate’s skeleton interlaced with things like bolts, barbed-wire and pens. “The objects had caused the stomach to expand,” said Acevedo. Doctors said Zarate was mentally ill but it was not clear why he ate the metal.
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Cite this article as: Burhan Ahmed, MD, "Mobile in Stomach," in Medicalopedia, November 8, 2010, [Permalink: https://www.medicalopedia.org/67/mobile-in-stomach/].