Amazing X-rays (Part 2)

An X-ray showing a 6-1/2-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia in 2004. Skinner had an operation in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an x-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside.

The x-ray of Ron Hunt's skull shows an 18-inch-long drill bit that pierced Hunt's eye socket and went through his head, just nudging his brain. Hunt, a Truckee, Calif., construction worker, fell off a ladder Friday, Aug. 15, 2003, and landed on the drill he was using at a construction site.

An X-ray of the pelvis of New York firefighter Matt Long, who was crushed by a Bear Sterns charter bus in 2003. Long, who wasn't expected to be able to walk again, ran the 2008 New York Marathon last month.

An X-ray show's a nail in the skull of Jed Bryant, from Rapid City, S.D., who suffered the injury at the construction site he worked at...

... a profile of Jed Bryant's skull.

An x-ray shows a nail embedded in the brain of an Israeli wounded in a suicide bombing in 2002 in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. Palestinian bombers pack screws and nails into their devices for deadly effect. The shrapnel in the bomb can cause brain damage if it enters the brain.

X-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a 5-inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend from being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth, south London, in November 2007.

This X-ray shows a 2-inch metal pin that was shot out of a garden tiller and into the brain of Chris Clear, a 19-year-old from Penrose, Colo. The x-ray was shot in Canon City, Colo., in late April after the freak accident, which, despite a trip to the emergency room on the day that it happened, went undetected for 48 hours.

A dental office X-ray reveals a four-inch nail embedded in the skull of Patrick Lawler, 23, which was removed at Littleton Adventist Hospital in suburban Denver in 2005. Lawler unknowingly shot himself with a nail gun while working at a ski resort and thought he was merely suffering a minor toothache and blurry vision as a result. When painkillers and ice failed to stop the ache six days later, he went to a dental office where the nail was discovered.

This X-ray shows a 3-inch nail in the head of a Houston carpenter that missed half a dozen vital areas by an eighth of an inch.

This X-ray shows a nail lodged in Linda Archipolo's head. Archipolo went to rehab for her brain injury after a three-inch nail, shot with a nail gun, accidentally went through two walls and landed her skull while she was working at a Burger King in Massapequa in 1981.

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Amazing X-rays (Part 1)

An x-ray of an 11-year-old Chinese schoolboy's skull shows a 16-inch arrow, which narrowly missed Liu Cheong's brain. Cheong, a sharpshooter, was practicing with a friend, teachers at the school reportedly believe, when he was hit by the arrow. Doctors removed the arrow, but Cheong still faces the risk of infection, while his teammate is being treated for shock.

This is an X-ray image of a chair leg lodged in Shafique el-Fahkri's left eye socket, taken after an attack outside a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. El-Fahkri fell to the ground after the leg of a metal chair thrown by Liam Peart speared into his eye socket and down his neck following several fights near the club. The victim's eyeball moved to the side and he spent a month in intensive care. While he has 95 percent of his vision back, the incident left him with a raspy voice, Australia's AAP news agency said.

An x-ray of Nicholas Holderman, a 17-month-year-old Kentucky tot, shows how a set of car keys penetrated his brain after he fell on them. The keys miraculously avoided damaging his eyesight and have been surgically removed.

Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004. Five of the six nails, shown above in an X-ray from Providence Holy Cross Hospital, were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down.

A computer tomography picture shows a pencil inside a woman's head. After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed. Margaret Wegner, now 60, was 4-years-old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

Doctor Nikola shows a fork, which was removed from an Israeli woman who swallowed it while trying to catch a bug that flew in to her mouth. Doctors at Poriah Hospital in northern Israel performed emergency surgery and removed the fork in 2003.

George Chandler, a 60-year-old retired Kansas man has fully recovered after a friend accidentally fired a 2-1/2 inch nail into his head during a home improvement project in June. Doctors told Chandler the nail narrowly missed three vessels related to eyesight, speech and physical movement. An estimated 40,000 nail-gun injuries are treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. each year.

An X-ray image of Chinese woman, Luo Cuifen, 29, released by Richland International Hospital, shows 23 needles in her body. A hospital spokesman said that her grandparents possibly embedded the needles under her skin to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place. In many parts of China, baby boys are still heavily favored over girls because they are bound by tradition to support their parents in their old age, and because they carry on the family name.

An X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set on May 8, 2008. The child required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks.

A 37-year-old man had a knife embedded in his brain during an altercation in Wellington, New Zealand in 2003. Neurosurgeon Martin Hunn removed the knife after lengthy surgery and the patient was in serious but stable condition. A man was been arrested and charged over the stabbing.

An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight-inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium.

This X-ray shows a 2-inch nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery.