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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/knife-inside-head-for-four-years.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A doctor holds up the knife taken out of Li Fu's brain in China after being lodged there for four years (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-knife-inside-head-for-four-years.jpg" alt="A doctor holds up the knife taken out of Li Fu's brain in China after being lodged there for four years (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Chinese surgeons have removed a rusty, four-inch knife from the skull of a man who claimed it had been stuck in there for four years.</p>
<p>Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort.</p>
<p>An official at Yuxi City People&#8217;s Hospital in Yunnan Province said that Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without him realising it.</p>
<p>Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly corroded blade without shattering it, said the official.</p>
<p>The hospital&#8217;s website also reported the successful surgery.</p>
<p>The case, described by one doctor as a &#8220;miracle,&#8221; has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the internet.</p>
<p>&#8220;We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head,&#8221; Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital&#8217;s stomatology department, told state broadcaster CCTV.</p>
<p>CCTV showed footage of the rusted knife and interviewed Li, who said: &#8220;As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears. It has been four years already.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at New York&#8217;s Montefiore Medical Centre, said X-ray images of the man&#8217;s head posted on the hospital&#8217;s website show the knife sitting behind the man&#8217;s throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are planes and spaces between important organs. That&#8217;s how one does surgery &#8211; you dissect in those planes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe out of sheer luck this knife passed through&#8221; one such area, Flamm said, adding that he was still surprised at the time the blade supposedly spent in the man&#8217;s body.</p>
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