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The Chinese Weibo-sphere has been alight with news of a woman whose stomach exploded and caught fire after some intense China-quality partying.
According to reports from Xinhua and others, a 58-year-old Jiangsu province woman ate and drank to such excess that her stomach “exploded,” causing her to be rushed to surgery where doctors had to operate in order to remove it.
During the surgery gas emissions from her abdomen actually ignited in the operating theatre. The woman’s final prognosis is not stated, although burns apparently do not figure amongst her injuries.
Doctors explain this otherwise incredible tale reasonably enough – the lady having drunk lots of beer, when surgeons opened her up to operate the vapours were ignited by an electical scalpel they were using.
Alarmingly, such cases may be less vanishingly rare than might be hoped – the same reports point out that “one or two” similar cases occur annually in the provincial capital Nanjing.
Read more here. (Sankaku Complex, NSFW)
Japanese Source.
According to reports from Xinhua and others, a 58-year-old Jiangsu province woman ate and drank to such excess that her stomach “exploded,” causing her to be rushed to surgery where doctors had to operate in order to remove it.
During the surgery gas emissions from her abdomen actually ignited in the operating theatre. The woman’s final prognosis is not stated, although burns apparently do not figure amongst her injuries.
Doctors explain this otherwise incredible tale reasonably enough – the lady having drunk lots of beer, when surgeons opened her up to operate the vapours were ignited by an electical scalpel they were using.
Alarmingly, such cases may be less vanishingly rare than might be hoped – the same reports point out that “one or two” similar cases occur annually in the provincial capital Nanjing.
Read more here. (Sankaku Complex, NSFW)
Japanese Source.
