CT scans kept showing the same thing: a thin, wire-like object about 30 millimeters long lodged deep in a 77-year-old woman's neck, in front of her spine. Yet two operations ended without anyone finding it.
On the third try, surgeons located the culprit by touch rather than sight. It was a transparent, rigid plastic fragment with sharp, pointed edges, according to a case report published July 9 in the Journal of Personalized Medicine.
