‘Extremely rare case’: Indian doctor removes nose pin screw from woman’s lung 

Doctors in the Indian state of West Bengal successfully performed surgery to remove the screw of awoman’snose pin that had lodged into her lungs.

The 35-year-old victim, Varsha, had accidentally inhaled the screw of her nose pin that she had been wearing since her wedding"16-17 years back".

She said she wasjusttalking when she"took a deep breath and inhaled it"around two months back.

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In March, Varshahad to consulta doctor after experiencing difficulty breathing, a cough and pneumonia.

Later, a CT scan confirmed that the cause of the difficulty was a screw that had stuck in her lungs. A subsequent X-ray further confirmed its exact location.

Dr Debraj Jash, a pulmonologist atKolkata'sMedica Superspecialty Hospital, performed the surgery and removed thescrew,in what he called an“extremely rare case”.

"Sometimes we get cases where dry fruits or betel nuts have gone intopeople'slungs, but most such cases involve young children or elderly people above 80. A woman patient in her 30s is an exception,"the doctorwas quotedas sayingby BBC.

Before Jash, Varsha had approached another pulmonologist to seek reliefbuttheyfailed to remove the screw even after sending a fibreoptic bronchoscope, a tiny camera with forceps, down her airway.

"We had to counsel the patient first. She was worried about undergoing a second procedure so soon after the first one, but we explained to her that the human body is designed in such a way thatthere'sno place in it for a foreign object,"Dr Jash said.

The surgery went on for 30 minutes, and it proved to be challenging because the screw"had been in her lung for more than two weeks and tissues had already grown around it".

"We had to be very careful because if, during extraction, the screw came in contact with the airway - which is very narrow - it could cause injury and lead to bleeding which could cause a catastrophe,"the doctor added.

(With inputs from agencies)