Craziest X-rays: How did that get in there?!

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X-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a 5-inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend from being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth, South London in November 2007.

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A 2-inch metal pin was shot out of a garden tiller and into the brain of Chris Clear, a 19-year-old from Penrose, Colo. The X-ray was shot in late April after the freak accident, which, despite a trip to the emergency room on the day that it happened, went undetected for 48 hours.

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An X-ray shows a nail in the skull of Jed Bryant, from Rapid City, S.D., who suffered the injury at the construction site he worked at.

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This X-ray shows a 3-inch nail in the head of a Houston carpenter that missed half a dozen vital areas by an eighth of an inch.

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Grandma didn't get run over by a reindeer, but she did accidentally chop off her own hand using a power saw. Pat Marvin, 64, was using the saw in her home in Columbus, Ohio when the accident happened. Doctors were able to reattach her sawn-off limb with an 8-hour surgery and she's already back to wiggling her fingers. Marvin is expected to make a full recovery.

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A Chinese man's stabbing headache ended this week when doctors removed a rusty 4-inch knife blade that had been lodged in his skull for four years. Li Fuyan said a robber had stabbed him on the right side of his jaw. For years, Li had suffered from severe headaches and had trouble breathing, but didn't know it was because a knife blade was stuck inside his head, reported the Associated Press.

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This X-ray shows a nail lodged in Linda Archipolo's head. Archipolo went to rehab for her brain injury after a three-inch nail, shot with a nail gun, accidentally went through two walls and landed her skull while she was working at a Burger King in Massapequa in 1981.

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An X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set. The child required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks.

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An X-ray of Nicholas Holderman, a 17-month-year-old Kentucky tot, show how a set of car keys penetrated his brain after he fell on them. The keys miraculously avoided damaging his eyesight and have since been surgically removed.

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Six nails were embedded in the skull of construction worker, Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain. Five of the six nails, shown above in an X-ray from Providence Holy Cross Hospital, were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face after the swelling went down.

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Doctors at a Canadian hospital found a shocking image staring right back at them as they were scanning the testicles of a 45-year-old paraplegic man. The image of one of the testicles (shown above) looks like a man's face grimaced in agony. The image, taken in 2009, was sent to the medical journal "Urology," and was recently published with the headline, "The face of testicular pain: A surprising ultrasound finding."

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An x-ray shows a nail embedded in the brain of an Israeli wounded in a suicide bombing in 2002 in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. Palestinian bombers pack screws and nails into their devices for deadly effect. The shrapnel in the bomb can cause brain damage if it enters the brain.

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An X-ray of the pelvis of New York firefighter Matt Long, who was crushed by a Bear Sterns charter bus in 2003. Long, who wasn't expected to be able to walk again, ran the 2008 New York Marathon.

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Doctor Nikola shows a fork, which was removed from an Israeli woman who swallowed it while trying to catch a bug that flew into her mouth. Doctors at Poriah Hospital in Northern Israel performed emergency surgery and removed the fork.

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A dental office X-ray reveals a four-inch nail embedded in the skull of Patrick Lawler, 23, which was removed at Littleton Adventist Hospital in suburban Denver in 2005. Lawler unknowingly shot himself with a nail gun while working at a ski resort and thought he was merely suffering a minor toothache and blurry vision as a result. When painkillers and ice failed to stop the ache six days later, he went to a dental office where the nail was discovered.

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In this frame taken from a TV Globo video, a person points at a X-ray of a 2-year-old boy showing needles inside his body in a hospital in Ibotirama, Northern Brazil. A 2-year-old Brazilian boy had as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said they were apparently stuck there one by one.

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A 37-year-old man had a knife embedded in his brain during an altercation in Wellington, New Zealand. Neurosurgeon Martin Hunn removed the knife after lengthy surgery and the patient was in serious but stable condition. A man was been arrested and charged over the stabbing.

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An X-ray image of Chinese woman, Luo Cuifen, 29, released by Richland International Hospital, shows 23 needles in her body. A hospital spokesman said that her grandparents possibly embedded the needles under her skin to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place. In many parts of China, baby boys are still heavily favored over girls because they are bound by tradition to support their parents in their old age, and because they carry on the family name.

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An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight-inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium.

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This X-ray shows a 2-inch nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery.

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An X-ray showing a 6-1/2-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia. Skinner had an operation in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an x-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside.

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This can't be what Buzz Lightyear meant by saying "To infinity and beyond." A frightening X-ray shows a doll of the "Toy Story" hero stuck inside a patient's backside. The jaw-dropping image is among 100 strange X-ray shots to be published in a book called "Stuck Up."

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George Chandler, a 60-year-old retired Kansas man has fully recovered after a friend accidentally fired a 2-1/2 inch nail into his head during a home improvement project. Doctors told Chandler the nail narrowly missed three vessels related to eyesight, speech and physical movement. An estimated 40,000 nail-gun injuries are treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. each year.

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A Texas construction worker miraculously escaped death after a nail was fired into his brain. The 4-inch nail was accidentally fired deep into the man's skull. The patient underwent surgery to remove the nail from his dominant lobe. "You make a wrong move or a millimeter away here or there, it can be a disastrous outcome," Dr. Rob Dickerman said.

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The x-ray of Ron Hunt's skull shows an 18-inch-long drill bit that pierced Hunt's eye socket and went through his head, just nudging his brain. Hunt, a Truckee, Calif., construction worker, fell off a ladder Friday, Aug. 15, 2003, and landed on the drill he was using at a construction site.