India, May 25 -- In an extremely rare and medically complex case, a 72-year-old woman was found to have a biliary stent inside her liver that had calcified into a stone-like structure after being left in her body for over a decade. The forgotten stent, which had severely migrated and become encased in bile and calcium, posed a major removal challenge-one stent was successfully broken and extracted, while the other had to be pushed into the intestine.

A biliary stent is a small tube inserted into the bile duct to keep it open and ensure proper drainage of bile from the liver to the intestine, typically used to relieve blockages caused by stones, tumours or inflammation.

Nalini Devidas Sawaskar, a resident of Dombivli, began experiencing ...