Surgery removes grenade from soldier’s head
By Ben Harder
In some operating rooms, the patient isn’t the only person whose life is on the line. Since World War II, surgeons have chronicled the removal of potentially explosive projectiles from dozens of wounded people. In the latest such case to be reported, Colombian military doctors extracted an intact grenade from the head of a teenage soldier.
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The young man was accidentally shot in the left cheek during training in August 2001. X rays revealed a gun-launched, kiwi-size grenade lodged in the nasal area beneath the soldier’s skull.