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AMAZING X-RAYS: 3-Inch Nail In Chicago Man's Brain Latest Medical Wonder

www.huffingtonpost.com   First Posted: 01/21/2012 10:53 am Updated: 02/ 3/2012 5:54 pm

The 3-and-a-half-inch nail pulled from a Chicago man's head turned doctors at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., into heroes -- and made for an amazing X-ray.

Dante Autullo thought he'd merely cut himself while building a shed. It wasn't until he was taken to the hospital the next day that he realized that he'd accidentally shot himself in the skull with a nail gun, according to the Associated Press.

"When they brought in the picture, I said to the doctor `Is this a joke? Did you get that out of the doctors joke file?'" the 32-year-old recalled. "The doctor said 'No man, that's in your head.'''

The X-ray revealed that the shot was just millimeters away from the section of the brain that controls the motor functions, according to Fox News.

We at HuffPost Weird News have been collecting amazing X-rays and medical photos. What's more amazing than the visual delight is the stories surrounding them.

In September, we laid our hands on an amazing shot, obtained by Brazilian Federal Police who stopped a man at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo. X-ray images show 72-capsules of cocaine in his tummy.

A month earlier, an 86-year-old man miraculously survived after a pruning shears was lodged in his eye socket.

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11:01 AM on 01/31/2012
RE: Nail in Chicago man's brain...Lauren Zima used the wrong word, nauseous" instead of the correct word "nauseated." Nauseous means disgusting, nauseated means to feel ill, sick to the stomach. Please make a note of it at HuffPo!
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SoulOfDespair
12:19 PM on 01/23/2012
He has survive death. Dun Dun Dun. Should'v appeared in Final Destination... xD
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Brianna Cole
Which one wins? The one you feed.
12:00 PM on 01/23/2012
I'm gonna come out and say it. BS he didn't know it was in there. He probably got himself and thought.... Well, maybe it won't hurt anything. Until he woke up sick the next morning and realized he wasn't superman. We all seem to be operating on the idea that he is telling us the truth about all this. He probably didn't want to make a big deal about it because his wife would go mental. I know my mom would if that happened to my dad. If you think you've hit yourself (and see blood) and know you might possibly have something in the hole but feel no pain or pressure displacement...... Well, *some* people might just keep on 'a workin'.
08:49 AM on 01/23/2012
We have some Presidential Aspirants that should also be checked for "Foreign Object Damage" in their Craniums, The Simp and the Blimp, Off to the MRI...
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06:21 AM on 01/23/2012
Must have been a bagger-lol
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06:30 AM on 01/23/2012
I bet you live a very lonely life.
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06:45 AM on 01/23/2012
I'm happily married and not to the G.O.P.
11:13 PM on 01/22/2012
we only use one tenth of our brains capacity to begin with ,, so he shot himself in the dead zone of the mind ........... we all have some . good he survived .
08:51 AM on 01/23/2012
Romney made the same mental calculation and he claims to be "Presidential" Material, Grey Matter whilst Beltway Boyo is mostly Dark Matter.
08:04 PM on 01/23/2012
That is not true.
09:02 AM on 01/22/2012
First time the numb nut noticed it he might have gone - "BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY!" :P
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SweetCarolineoftheForest
Carpe Diem!
02:03 AM on 01/22/2012
He must have had a really high tolerance to pain.
01:32 PM on 01/22/2012
Brain doesn't have any feeling
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aspman07
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06:31 AM on 01/23/2012
But the head around the brain does.
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healthanalyst
Banned from commenting, so?
10:59 PM on 01/21/2012
OK, how do you get shot by a nail gun and not get the idea you have a nail in your head? Now really.
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08:15 PM on 01/23/2012
Well, if you are hit or stricken at a fast speed, you might not even feel it. Some people who are shot dont even realize it until they begin to faint from blood loss. Rosavelt was once shot right in the chest just before giving a speech, but he didn't notice until seeing holes in his glasses case and in his folded document in his jacket pocket.
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dtmfman
2 most common elements...Hydrogen and Stupidity
08:17 PM on 01/21/2012
Breaking News: Republican breathes sigh of relief as xray returns negative for tumor...Story at 11...

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Moderate dem
4 More! ***Happy Dance***
08:25 AM on 01/23/2012
LOL!
07:28 PM on 01/21/2012
I think there are nails in the brains of a few of the republican candidates.
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06:54 PM on 01/21/2012
Where's the one with a vag.ina on the brain?
Al Schrader
Don't limit your potential
06:52 PM on 01/21/2012
At the start of the video is an ad for a cold and flu medicine. Save your money. Instead, go to your county health department and get the flu, pneumonia, and TDaP immunizations.
Is the best investment you could ever make. For months I've been surrounded by sneezing, sniffling, feverish, coughing, miserable in bed for a week people and I haven't gotten a hiccup. I thought, what if I get exposed to a flu bug not included in the vaccines ? The new vaccines cover 9/10s of all of the bugs including H1N1 and is updated continuously. Cuts your chances of getting the flu by 90%. I also noticed that I haven't gotten one of those itchy throat colds which I don't think was a cold but instead is one of the milder flu bugs. Those three vaccines makes you almost bullet proof....Alfie-
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healthanalyst
Banned from commenting, so?
10:56 PM on 01/21/2012
WHO has sentinels who determine next year's vaccine about now. They're pretty good at it. The vaccine companies make the vaccine based on these determinations.
01:35 PM on 01/22/2012
Flu vaccine? Hey, can I interest you in this little bridge for sale over here. PT Barnum said that anyone that buys into the flu shot nonsense will buy just about anything
Al Schrader
Don't limit your potential
02:07 PM on 01/22/2012
PT Barnum ? Wasn't he part of a bunch of clowns ? Oh, wait a minute, the circus is a bunch of clowns. WHO means World Health Organization. And I can tell you the flu vaccines work. Almost everyone I work with has had the flu except for me. No one else got the shots. It takes 10 minutes to get the flu, pneumonia, and TDaP injections....Al-
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06:24 AM on 01/23/2012
Read a book luddite and not the bible
06:19 PM on 01/21/2012
Let us not forget the great 'crayon xray' that explained Homer Simpson's intellectual prowess.