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Friday, August 10, 2007

'Stomach Cam' Gets Stuck In Man 3 Months

Doctors performed a procedure called capsule endoscopy -- involving the swallowing of a pill-shaped camera to take internal snapshots -- on a guy named Roger Whitlock at Kingston Hospital in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, UK. The camera checked in, but it never checked out. The camera got LODGED in his digestive system, and doctors had to remove it surgically three months later. Doctors aren't saying if the camera kept taking pictures during its summer vacation inside Mr. Whitlock.

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