Doctors used a laser to remove electrical wire that had knotted in an 18-year-old’s bladder after he shoved it up his urethra to arouse himself.
The unnamed teenager, from Uttar Pradesh in India, was in pain and struggled to urinate – but did not confess to urologists the reason behind his agony.
Quick-thinking medics delved into his medical history and found it wasn’t his first time putting strange objects into his urethra, the case report revealed.
As such, they assumed he had placed another object into his urethra and conducted scans, which showed an electrical wire tangled in his bladder.
Urologists, who were forced to use a laser to break the wire up into smaller pieces to pull out of his urethra, did not reveal how long it was.
Medics conducted scans, which showed an electrical wire tangled in the 18-year-old’s bladder (a radiograph shows the knotted wire in his bladder)
The bizarre tale, revealed in a prestigious medical journal, did not explain what other objects the man had placed in his urethra in the past.
Writing in the BMJ Case Reports, medics in Lucknow said the man used the wire for ‘eroticism’ – for his sexual desire.
They added: ‘It was managed by endoscopic removal following fragmentation of wire under local anaesthesia using holmium laser.’
The teenager sought medical help after he found it painful to urinate and had pain in his bladder region.
Upon questioning, it was revealed the pain had started after he placed the electric wire in his urethra for sexual gratification.
X-rays conducted by the team at King George’s Medical University showed a coiled electric wire in his bladder.
Urologists, who were forced to use a laser to break the wire up into smaller pieces to pull out of his urethra, did not reveal how long it was
It is thought the wire reached his bladder because of the contractions whenever he tried to urinate, curling it up and pushing it deeper.
Urologists, led by Dr Ajay Aggarwal, claimed the boy had no psychiatric illness as an evaluation proved ‘unremarkable’.
Surgeons first tried to pull the wire back out of his urethra through a cystoscopy – a procedure to look inside the bladder using a thin camera – but were unable to because it knotted in his bladder.
The team resorted to breaking down the electrical wire by shining a powerful laser at it, attached onto a thin wire pushed down his urethra.
Holmium lasers, such as the one used in this procedure, are a weapon of choice for urologists tackling enlarged prostates.
But the new case proves the laser is also an ‘efficient and powerful tool’ for breaking down materials and removing them endoscopically.
The operation proved to be a success and the teenager was discharged 24 hours after the procedure.
It is not the first time MailOnline has reported on bizarre objects that have been removed from a patient’s bladder.
In March, an unnamed man in his 30s, from Taiwan, had an eight-inch sex toy pulled out after pushing it into his penis.
He was admitted to hospital in south-western Taiwan having spent more than two days with the plastic object lodged inside him.