Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman that doctors believe may have been imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.

After Luo Cuifen of China saw blood in her urine, doctors found 23 needles in her body. Her grandparents may have inserted the needles to try to kill her as a child because they wanted a boy, a hospital said Sept. 10.

The needles - about an inch in length - were discovered by X-ray after Luo Cuifen, 29, went to doctors complaining of blood in her urine.