Doctors discovered a glass tumbler inside a woman’s bladder after she went to the hospital to get treated for UTI-like symptoms.
The bizarre case, which was presented in Volume 40 of Urology Case Reports by the Tunisian Urology Department, takes place in Tunisia where doctors were left gob-smacked following a visit by an unnamed 45-year-old woman who complained of pain in the abdomen.
Following a series of tests and scans, the doctors found a massive, 3-inch-wide bladder stone inside the woman’s bladder.
While bladder stones are typically too small to be seen by the naked eye, the giant formation appeared to have stretched the patient’s bladder in all directions as it grew inside her.
The bladder stone, however, was not the worse finding the doctors made. Following the surgery, the surgeons cracked the bladder stone only to find a large glass tumbler inside.
While it is known that bladder stones may form around foreign objects in the bladder, an object as big as a glass tumbler is not something that one could easily believe to be able to find inside a person’s bladder.
As the authors of the case report published in the Urology Case Reports noted, “intra-vesical foreign bodies can be of variable nature and etiology, their introduction can be voluntary or not.”
The abstract of the report reads: “The motivations most frequently associated with the presence of foreign bodies within the bladder are of … erotic nature.
“Various objects have been inserted into the bladder and many patients fail to remove them themselves and are very embarrassed to seek medical advice, which is the origin of a clinical picture which is most often atypical which occurs in a patient particular terrain.”
According to the report, the woman in question admitted inserting the glass tumbler intra-vaginally “for erotic purposes” some four years ago.
The article further argues that the massive object likely entered the patient’s bladder by moving “from the vagina by eroding both of the vaginal and cystic walls” potentially as a result of local suppuration.
Following two days after the surgery to remove the woman’s massive bladder stone, the patient was discharged from the hospital.
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