A Russian woman has spent two decades living with a 12-inch tube embedded in her stomach after an alleged surgical blunder.
The unidentified patient, 50, had the rubber tube put in after suffering a stroke in 2000. It was designed to keep her fed in intensive care.
But, local reports suggest that doctors forgot to remove one part of the tubing near her stomach. Somehow, it caused no symptoms.
The mistake was only uncovered recently when she went to the hospital in Ulan-Ude, close to the Mongolian border, for a regular check-up.
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