An curved arrow pointing right. Pen caps have a small hole to prevent choking if swallowed and to equalize the pressure inside the pen to keep it from leaking. Produced by Emma Fierberg.

Doctors at a Hyderabad hospital successfully removed a pen cap from the lungs of a 26-year-old man, which he had accidentally swallowed 21 years ago. The patient experienced a persistent cough and ...

Doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad removed a pen cap from the lungs of a man, who had accidentally ingested it 21 years ago. The 26-year-old from Karimnagar recently approached a hospital due to ...

HYDERABAD: In an unusual case, doctors at KIMS Hospital saved the life of a 26-year old man who had swallowed a pen cap at the age of five and continued to live with the cap stuck in the left lung.

The procedure to remove the pen cap took nearly three hours Hyderabad: Doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad removed a pen cap from the lungs of a man, who had accidentally ingested it 21 years ago.