Pen still works after 25 years in woman's stomach

A pen removed from a woman's stomach after 25 years still works.

Pen still works after 25 years in woman's stomach

A pen removed from a woman's stomach after 25 years still works.

Doctors discovered the item when they X-rayed a 76-year-old woman, who explained she had accidentally swallowed the pen a quarter of a century ago while "interrogating a spot on her tonsil".

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