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It has to be one of them most bizarre collections – a hospital in Croatia has framed and mounted a selection of objects removed from patients bodies that have collected by staff over the last 80 years.

Needles, buttons, coins, animal bones and even a metal communist red star swallowed by patients have been carefully mounted in the collection boxes and are now to be put up on the wall in the main hospital in the southern town of Sibenik.

But doctors decided to limit the collection items that were swallowed. They also have a collection of items the patients had asked to be surgically removed from the other end after in most cases accidentally sitting on them.

These include TV controls, salt pots, sex toys and deodorant cans.

A spokesman for the hospital said: "We started collecting things in the 1930s to show medical students the sort of thing to look for in cases like this. And then it became kind of a habit to continue collecting them. Now we've decided to put them on display – or at least part of the collection."

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