In a rare case a team of surgeons at AIIMS-New Delhi removed a 20-cm-long kitchen knife from a man's liver.

 The 28-year-old man had swallowed the knife a month-and-a-half ago and continued living his life until he started to experience loss of appetite and abdominal pain.

The surgery to remove the knife was performed under the supervision of surgeon Dr NR Das from the Department of Gastroenterology on July 19.

Doctors at AIIMS said this was the first case of a person swallowing a whole knife and surviving for so long that they had come across. The patient, who is from Haryana, was addicted to drugs and swallowed the knife after he could not get any marijuana. An X-Ray revealed the existence of a knife in his liver.