Chinese man with stomach pain finds thermometer swallowed as child still inside him

A remarkable medical case unfolded when Chinese surgeons discovered a thermometer lodged in a patient's stomach for decades. The man, experiencing chronic abdominal pain, underwent emergency surgery that revealed the forgotten medical instrument from his childhood. Despite remaining intact throughout the years, the device's temperature readings had completely faded. This extraordinary discovery highlights unusual foreign body complications and the importance of medical imaging in diagnosing unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with childhood medical histories.