2023-07-13 11:00:00
THE CRAZY STORIES OF MEDICINE. Emergency physicians sometimes make surprising discoveries in the anus of their patients.
By Frédéric Lewino On the left, the foreign body following its extraction. On the right, the abdomen showing the foreign body at the level of the pelvis. Published on 07/13/2023 at 1:00 p.m.
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In standard use, the anus is responsible for expelling the remains of digestion. It works one way, from the inside out. It happens that some thrill seekers try to force the door of the temple, from the outside, with tools, bottles, vegetables, tennis balls, light bulbs, toothbrushes, and even… a cock. frozen pig.
In this matter, the imagination of man is unlimited. The concern is that the foundation behaves like a black hole, absorbing everything that comes within its reach. And here is the object stuck inside, out of reach of the fingers of the daring. The misfortune whose pleasure has become suffering has only to present itself to the emergency department, head bowed or with a credible story to explain the improbable.
READ ALSOToulon: a man comes with a shell in his anus, a hospital evacuatedOne fine day in 2014, a 49-year-old Moroccan presented himself to the emergency room of the hospital in Fez. He explains that, suffering from hemorrhoids, he made himself a small, slender tool to scratch himself and thus relieve his pain. Bad luck, five days ago, pushing it too deep, his anus swallowed it downright. Unable to extract it. It is therefore in desperation that he comes to seek help from the doctors. The emergency physicians are not fooled, they are used to these patients with a greedy behind. The Moroccan is cared for by Khalid Mazine and Abdesslam Bouassria, surgeons from the visceral department of the CHU Hassan-II in Fez. They examine her abdomen, which is soft and not distended. Apparently, he is in great shape, except that a digital rectal examination then an x-ray confirms the presence of a 15 cm long object.
Passage to the block
The two surgeons choose to extract it to the operating room. After loco-regional anesthesia and the installation of an anal retractor, one of the two men introduces pliers into the anus to grasp the intruder. Appears a kind of pudding wrapped in several sheets of plastic. What are they covering? The bets are going well in the operating room. To everyone’s amazement, a piece of garden hose appears. This is a great first! The next day, the man came out of the hospital with a functioning transit once more.
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