[PHOTOS] 9 Most Unexpected Things to Find In Your Body At An X-Ray Examination
Here's a collection of the most bizarre X-rays of human body parts ever taken from around the world. But be warned, the x-rays here might be too much for faint-hearted.
By Sadho Ram
An X-ray showing a spear that has pierced through the head of 16-year-old Yasser Lopez is seen in this handout photo from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
Lopez was spear fishing with a friend when he was accidentally shot in the head. The spear entered just above his right eye, and penetrated through his brain to the back of his skull. Miraculously, no vital brain structures were damaged by the harpoon, and Lopez is now recovering from the incident.
An X-ray showing a spear that has pierced through the head of 16-year-old Yasser Lopez is seen in this handout photo from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida provided to Reuters June 19, 2012.
Image via Jackson Memorial Hospital/Reuters
An X-ray showing a spear that has pierced through the head of 16-year-old Yasser Lopez is seen in this handout photo from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida provided to Reuters June 19, 2012.
Image via Jackson Memorial Hospital/ReutersSix nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain
Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down.
Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles.
Image via Providence Holy Cross Medical Center/AP PhotoSteel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents
The child required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks.
An undated X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set on May 8, 2008.
Image via The Jaspaar Herald/AP PhotoSafdar Ali Shah, 36, displays his medical X-ray sheet with a scissor in his lower abdomen outside the Karachi Press Club
Shah said he went to a hospital on April 7, 2012 for a medical checkup due to continued pain in his abdomen, and was shocked when doctors identified that he had a scissor in his abdomen which was left by a medical team who performed his operation back in 2000.
Safdar Ali Shah, 36, displays his medical X-ray sheet with a scissor in his lower abdomen outside the Karachi Press Club April 9, 2012.
Image via Akhtar Soomro/ReutersA mobile phone and a hands free kit are seen in the rectum on an X-ray of a 58-year-old Sri Lankan prisoner
The 58-year-old convict had to be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo where doctors later retrieved the handset from his rectum.
A mobile phone and a hands free kit are seen in the rectum on an X-ray of a 58 year old Sri Lankan prisoner, who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of his cell.
Image via AFP PhotoChicago's Dante Autullo unknowingly shot a nail into his skull and posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook
Autullo underwent surgery to remove the 3-1/4-inch nail lodged in his brain and is recovering.
An X-ray showing a 17cm pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney
Skinner had an operation at St. George Hospital in Sydney's south in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an X-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside.
An X-ray showing a 17centimeter (6.7 inches) pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, April 20, 2004.
Image via Rob Griffith/AP PhotoX-ray of Michael Hill with an 8" knife sticking out of his skull is on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium
Ripley's Times Square site will house the ultimate in the odd and bizarre including 24 shrunken heads, a 3,197 lb meteorite, and a section of the Berlin Wall.
An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York's Times Square.
Image via Ripley's Believe It Or Not/AP PhotoX-ray of an four foot long pine snake who swallowed a couple of light bulbs is on display during the grand opening of Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium
