In the UK, medical professionals encountered a peculiar clinical situation involving a 60-year-old male patient presenting with severe pain, swelling, and urinary difficulties. This case was reported by BMJ Case Reports.
“The 60-year-old man experienced painful swelling of his penis, sepsis, and incomplete bladder emptying. Further examination revealed a foreign object within his urethra, which had been lodged there for a decade. It was later identified as a piece of cable,” the report detailed.
Due to significant tissue swelling and the large size of the foreign object, physicians were unable to remove it endoscopically. Consequently, they inserted a suprapubic catheter to drain the bladder and administered antibiotics to the patient.
After a period of six weeks, once the swelling subsided and the infection partially resolved, the man underwent surgery. Medical staff successfully extracted a stone from his urethra, which contained a fragment of telephone cable. The foreign object measured nine by five centimeters.
Initially reluctant to disclose the full details, the man later admitted to inserting the telephone cable into his urethra ten years prior. He had not sought medical attention for the issue, and no symptoms were apparent for many years. However, by the time of his hospitalization, the pensioner had already developed sepsis.
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