Wed Nov 11, 3:14 PM ET

Surgeons working on a patient. Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said Wednesday. (AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)

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