article_snippet.sent: When a man arrived at a hospital in India complaining of a stomach ache, doctors suspected it might be a run-of-the-mill case of food poisoning or an ulcer.
article_snippet.sent: Rajpal Singh, 34, had hundreds of coins and other objects removed from a man stomach after complaining of an ache.
article_snippet.sent: The image shows an X-ray with the mass of metal objects shown in white in his stomach .
article_snippet.sent: Doctors have told me metal objects would have punctured my intestine and I would have eventually died. '
article_snippet.sent: Pictured are X-rays of Mr Singh stomach, revealing the mass of foreign objects.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Singh said: 'Doctors have told me metal objects would have punctured my intestine and I would have eventually died' Dr Gagendeep Goyal (pictured centre in blue) led a team of five doctors who carried out the operation to remove the objects from Mr Singh abdomen .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Singh went to many medical centres in Punjab complaining of a painful ache in Mr Singh's abdomen, but no doctors could diagnose the problem.
article_snippet.sent: Finally, Dr Gagandeep Goyal, a gastroentologist at a local hospital, carried out an X-ray and revealed the mass of metal deep in Mr Singh's stomach.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Goyal said: 'The patient came to us with severe stomach pain.
article_snippet.sent: Though us have managed to remove most of them, there are still sharp injects and coins in Mr Singh's stomach. '
article_snippet.sent: Pictured are some coins removed from Mr Singh's stomach .