A Tanzanian man who came to the hospital complaining of pain and pus discharge from his right nipple was shocked to learn that he had been living with a large knife blade lodged in his chest for eight years.

Doctors at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania recently published a most unusual case study in the scientific journal National Library of Medicine. They wrote about a 44-year-old generally healthy man who came to the hospital with a 10-day-long history of white pus discharge from his right nipple. He denied any chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough, or fever, but asked if he had anything notable to tell doctors, he recalled a violent altercation eight years prior, during which he had sustained several cuts to his face, back, chest, and abdomen. Doctors had managed to suture the wounds back then, and he had lived a mostly uneventful life ever since, up until his nipple started oozing pus. Unable to determine the cause of the infection, doctors ordered an X-ray exam and were shocked to see a giant knife blade lodged in the man’s chest.

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