A 51-year-old man arrived at a hospital emergency department three days after a foreign object about 25 centimeters long, or roughly 10 inches, was inserted into his rectum. Then, while he was still in the emergency department, the object came out on its own. He had no complications.
The case appears in a report published online June 16, 2026, in the International Journal of Surgery: Global Health. Three of the four authors are radiology and general surgery physicians at the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) in Dharan, Nepal. The fourth is a radiologist at Anil Baghi Hospital in Punjab, India. According to their summary, the object was inserted by a friend while under the influence of alcohol.
