A 32-year-old Chinese man received treatment for stomach pain and was shocked to find a Mercury thermometer he had swallowed two decades prior. Doctors suspected the foreign object, discovered during a hospital scan, was still lodged in his duodenum.

A 32-year-old Chinese man who went to hospital suffering from stomach pain was shocked to discover that a Mercury thermometer he had swallowed 20 years ago was still inside him. The man, surnamed Wang, from Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, southeastern China, had sought treatment at the Longgang branch of The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. A scan revealed a foreign object in his duodenum, which doctors highly suspected to be a Mercury thermometer. As the tip of the...