Birthday Celebrating Teenager's stomach removed to save her life after drinking liquid nitrogen cocktail

Gaby Scanian, a teenager has had her stomach removed to save her life after drinking a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen in Lancashire, Great Britain.

Gaby, the drink and the bar in Lancashire, UK [Photo: Daily Mail]

Gaby was celebrating her 18th birthday at a bar in Lancaster when she had the drink and began to feel breathless.

She developed severe stomach pain and was taken to hospital where she was diagnosed with a perforated stomach.

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Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove her stomach and save her life.
Miss Scanlon, from Heysham, Lancashire, is in a serious but stable condition, police said.

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Gaddafi son needs surgery on gangrenous fingers

Full Story: Yahoo News 25 Nov

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam needs surgery to remove gangrenous flesh from a severed thumb and finger which if not treated could make him seriously ill, a doctor who examined him told Reuters Thursday.

The bandaged right arm of Saif al Islam (Photo By STRINGER/Reuters)

"This wound is not in good condition and requires amputation," said Andrei Murakhovsky, a Ukraine-born doctor working in Zintan, the town where Saif al-Islam is being held, and who treated him three days ago.

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