Doctors in China have extracted a rusty pin that was embedded in a woman's brain for 40 years, affecting movement of her arms and legs, an official report said Saturday.
The operation on Zhang Meihua, 41, was performed in Jinan, in coastal Shandong province, at the No. 148 Military Hospital, the Xinhua News Agency said.Zhang, who has no memory of being stuck in the head with a pin, began experiencing periodic problems with her arms and legs about 20 years ago. All treatment failed, and early this month doctors at the military hospital did a cranial CAT scan and found a pin-like object.
They operated and extracted the rusty pin, the shaft of which was embedded in Zhang's brain. The doctors estimate the pin was in the woman's head for about 40 years based on the growth rate of the skull, the report said.