A 63-year-old man from Florida, who had recently undergone abdominal surgery for prostate cancer, suffered a rare and potentially fatal injury when his colon protruded through a three-inch opening in his incision after a forceful bout of coughing and sneezing during breakfast with his wife.
Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, where skilled urologic surgeons successfully repositioned his bowel back into the abdominal cavity without any intestinal damage and used strong figure-of-eight stitches to close the abdomen and prevent recurrence.
The man spent six days in the hospital and had a smooth recovery, although the rare event could potentially cause PTSD.
The miraculous medical recovery was documented in a new article published by the American Journal of Medical Case Reports.
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