BEIJING: A man in China recently found himself in a medical drama of the most slippery kind - with a live eel swimming around in his abdomen.
The 33-year-old reportedly arrived at the hospital in agony, drenched in sweat and clutching his stomach as doctors scrambled to figure out what was wrong.
CT scans raised eyebrows, revealing an unidentified object lodged in his abdominal cavity and prompting immediate surgery.
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The eel was safely removed, and surgeons patched up a tear in the man's sigmoid colon before giving the area a thorough rinse.
Thankfully, the man made a full recovery and was discharged, though the eel, unsurprisingly, did not fare as well.
While doctors remained tight-lipped about how the creature got there, online "detectives" wasted no time, with one commenter writing, “We all know how it got in,” and another joking that the man must have “sat on it by accident.”