Belgrade, Serbia - A team of surgeons in western Serbia removed eight nails, a knife, a pen, a screw, a spoon, a clothes-peg and other, smaller objects from a young man's stomach, one of the doctors said Wednesday.

Dr. Maja Gulan, who helped perform the operation Monday in Uzice, 70 miles southwest of Belgrade, told the AP the team was "astonished."

"We have seen people swallow various things, but never this many," she said.

Doctors said the man was taken to the hospital after a relative saw him swallowing the objects.

The patient's identity has not been revealed. The doctors said his internal organs were not seriously injured and that he was recovering successfully.