Man who shoved batteries into his penis forced to have surgery after getting them stuck
Topics: Health
Callum Jones
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Topics: Health
A man who pushed batteries into his penis was forced to have gruesome surgery after suffering a painful ordeal.
It really is a bloke's worst nightmare, isn't it? Though many are probably asking one simple question after reading that first line: 'How?'
Well, the unidentified 73-year-old man is now the source of a rather disgusting medical study in March’s Urology Case Report, so if you are eating at the moment, I'd probably put it down.
The Australian-born man horrifyingly needed urgent urethra surgery after jamming three button-style batteries into his penis.
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"He reported a behavioural pattern of urethral foreign body insertion for sexual gratification and had not had issues in the past with removal," the report stated.
"To the best of our understanding, this is the first reported case of urethral necrosis with button battery insertion," the author's to the study added.
During the man's recent episode with batteries, they had 'migrated more proximally within the penile urethra' after a few unsuccessful attempts to remove them.
After a rather embarrassing mishap, the man ended up in the medical department with 'moderate penile pain, severe paraphimosis and obstructive urinary symptoms'.
Some of these symptoms included weak urinary flow and the sensation of an incomplete bladder emptying.
However, the man had to wait 24 hours to receive much-needed medical attention, forcing doctors to quickly remove the foreign objects once he had been attended to.
This is because corrosiveness can cause necrosis - the death of body tissue.
Medline Plus adds: "It occurs when too little blood flows to the tissue. This can be from injury, radiation, or chemicals. Necrosis cannot be reversed. When large areas of tissue die due to a lack of blood supply, the condition is called gangrene."
Well, the death of body tissue through necrosis can happen in just two hours, so it was vital doctors go to the patient promptly.
However, the surgery was certainly not straight forward for the surgeons after several unsuccessful attempts to remove them.
But after resorting to forceps, they were finally able to get the batteries out.
"All extracted batteries were coated with black tar-like material," the study noted.
That wasn't the end of it though, as just ten days later, the man returned to the hospital complaining of swelling and an unpleasant discharge.
The doctors discovered the man developed an 'extensive degree of necrosis' - subsequently meaning part of his urethra had to be removed.
"Given the complexity of his injury, it was deemed that formal penile urethral reconstruction would likely require a 3-stage repair," the researchers added.