Scissors left in woman for three years by surgeons

The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after bungling surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her.

The surgeons had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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But doctors dismissed her complaints that something was wrong until she collapsed in agony years later and this X-ray revealed the truth.

A spokesperson for the Sao Paulo medical council said: 'There was damage to her intestine and her other ovary, which had to be removed. We are investigating.'

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