There are many medical reasons that can cause black stools that are tarry with a foul smell, but sometimes dark stools are caused by eating certain foods or taking iron supplements. However, black stools can also be a result of bleeding, and the darker color indicates that the blood could be coming from a point in the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Gertrude Levandowski survived a 96-hour procedure at a Chicago hospital to remove a giant ovarian cyst; the longest surgery. The second longest surgery ever was 40 hours long and that was to remove 6 limbs from a 8 limed baby in India. But the most common longest surgery is spinal cord surgery it is a 14 hour surgery.
Reagan's Surgery Goes 'Beautifully' Doctors Find No Signs Of Colon Cancer. WASHINGTON â President Reagan underwent nearly 3 hours of successful surgery Saturday for the removal of a 2-inch growth from his large intestine as well as 2 feet of intestinal tract. ''There was no sign of cancer whatsoever,'' said Dr. Dale Oller after performing the surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Because of the president's exceptionally good health, Oller predicted that Reagan would need less than the normal period of six to eight weeks to make a full recovery.