By Bond Robertson 
A 35-year-old man had been suffering from headache and runny nose for a long time.
When he also lost his sight on Friday last week, his family took him to the Cuban Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi, Vietnam.
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Vietnamese newspaper Toy True He writes that the man told doctors at the hospital that he had recently felt an itch in his nose.
He also said he put tweezers up his nose and pulled out two halves of chopsticks.
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I felt something sting
The 35-year-old said that five months ago he got into a drunken fight with another man.
During the fight, he felt something poking him in the face, which he was convinced was the chopsticks he felt.
The newspaper wrote that after the fighting, he was admitted to another hospital for ten days, but after that the chopsticks were not discovered.
BOOM FAST: Chopsticks caused a fistula in the 35-year-old woman’s head. Photo: Cuba Friendship Hospital
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Unusual – and life-threatening
Doctors confirmed on Friday that the remaining half of the chopsticks had become lodged in his skull.
Consequently, the 35-year-old developed pneumothorax, a life-threatening condition usually caused by head trauma.
After looking closely at the CT scans, doctors discovered that the chopsticks had caused a fistula in the skull.
A fistula is a tubular channel between two hollow organs, or between a hollow organ and the skin, he says The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia.
Outside: Surgeons removed the remaining half of the chopsticks. Photo: Cuba Friendship Hospital
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– very rarely
The head of the hospital’s neurosurgery department, Nguyen Van Man, says he has never experienced anything like this before.
– This is a very rare case, he told the newspaper.
He explains that the fistula was located in an area with many blood vessels and nerves.
Due to the risk of operating on chopsticks, surgeons decided to remove them by a The telescope.
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steady state
– Due to the potential risk of open surgery, we chose laparoscopic surgery together Microsurgery For fistula care. This way, we made sure that the patient did not suffer from any lasting effects, says Van Man.
The man is still in hospital, but his condition is stable, according to Van Man.