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- Bangladeshi doctors performed emergency surgery to remove a live eel that perforated a man's colon.
- Surgeons opened the abdomen via laparotomy, cut the sigmoid colon, and extracted the 2.2-foot eel alive.
- They created a sigmoid colostomy and gave IV antibiotics, fluids, and anti-ulcer medication for peritonitis risk.
- Four days post-op the patient was symptom-free and discharged.
- Doctors said live-fish colon perforations are exceedingly rare.
