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(Scroll down for video) A man lived with as pencil lodged in his head for the past 15 years without even knowing, according to a statement released by hospital officials in Germany.
German doctors said that the Afghan man, who for years suffered from headaches, runny nose and eye problems, had a 10-centimeter or four-inch pencil lodged in his head.
Surgeons at the University Hospital of Aachen took out the pencil from the 24-year-old, and he is recovering.
The pencil injured the man’s sinuses and right eye socket.
When asked how the pencil got in his head, he recalled having fallen once as a child and suffering a severe nosebleed.
The case was presented at a medical conference in Essen on Tuesday by Professor Frank Hoelzle of Aachen University.
The pencil was noticed only after a thorough medical examination by computer tomography, which is a technique for image scanning.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view