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From "forgotten Christmas gift" within the gastrointestinal tract to “fishbone” inside the head of the pancreas, here are 20 unusual surgical cases that recently caught our eyes. Sometimes people develop ailments so mysterious they baffle doctors. These surgical cases can make scientists question everything they thought they knew about the human body and the diseases that afflict it. I would like to thank my co-authors for their participation in the writing of these cases. Authors information Mr. Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Levan Tchabashvili, Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Aigio, Greece Mr. Konstantinos Tasios, Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Elias Liolis, Department of Oncology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Charalampos Kaplanis, Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Konstantinos Skevis, Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Rhodos, Greece Mr. Christos Pitros, Department of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Andreas Antzoulas, Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Mr. Platon Dimopoulos, Department of Interventional Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Dr. Vasileios Leivaditis, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany Dr. Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece Dr. Spyros Papadoulas, Department of Vascul