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A selection of the most bizarre X-ray images

Extreme
23 Jul 2010
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This is an x-ray of a severed toe

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A broken skull image
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Image of a broken spine
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Severed hand x-ray
#04

Pin at the rectum
#05

Is that a glass? How did it get there?
#06

A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.
#07

Doctors in Pakistan removed a whole lightbulb from a prisoner’s anus June 28. The man said he awoke with he problem, but doctors weren’t sure.
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This X-ray shows a boy who swallowed magnetic pieces of a block one at a time. When they hit his stomach, they reconnected.
#09

Elsie, a 6-month-old Saint Bernard, swallowed a 13-inch serrated knife in September 2005. After an operation, the pup had an 8-inch scar.
#10

A film shows PVC plumbing pipes inserted in the bones of a deceased person as part of an alleged body parts ring.
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On 2004, dutch actress Georgina Verbaan confounded critics who doubted the authenticity of her mams by publishing impressive x-ray profiles of the suspect assets on her website. The results are conclusive proof that the 25-year-old did not surgically enhance her jubs in advance of a €200,000 photo shoot for the December issue of Dutch Playboy.
#12

An alien face seems to appear in the X-ray of a duck, which died in May from injuries it had when found.
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A nail gun shot six nails into construction worker Isidro Mejia’s head during an April 2004 accident. He not only survived but was expected at the time to recover fully.
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A An 6-inch pair of surgical scissors appears in the abdomen of Australian Pat Skinner in April 2004 — 18 months after her initial operation.
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X-rays from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., show items such as bed springs and batteries that prisoners swallowed to gain trips to outside hospitals.
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Python Gulps Down Queen-Size Electric Blanket. It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket – with the electrical cord and control box.
Veterinarians Karsten Fostvedt, above, and Barry Rathfon performed the two-hour operation.

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