In a major eye surgery, a team of ophthalmologists in the neighbouring Thane district have successfully operated and removed a 33 millimetre piece of wood, a foreign body, from the bony socket of a woman's eye.

Terming the surgery as 'medical miracle', the team of doctors who performed the operation, claimed that it was the 'world's largest foreign body' removed from an eye. Dr Shashank Ranade, who operated upon the patient along with Dr Sunil Morekar, said Saiyada Khatoon (50), hailing from Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), visited his hospital and complaint of swelling in her right eye for the last four months.