On May 17, Dr. Le Huy Luu, Executive Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital (HCMC), said that the doctors there had just successfully operated on a 19-year-old male patient. , living in Long An) got a cucumber fruit more than 10 cm long in the anorectal area.
The patient was admitted to the emergency room in a conscious state. The patient said that 6 hours before being admitted to the hospital, because he wanted to try a strange feeling, he put a cucumber in the anal area. Then, due to a slip, the melon got stuck deep inside. Immediately, the patient was transferred to Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital.
At the hospital, the patient underwent a colonoscopy. Doctors determined that the cucumber was more than 10 cm long and was located deep in the rectum. However, due to the large size of the melon, the endoscopic removal failed, so the doctors decided to operate on the patient.
After surgery, the patient’s health was stable and was discharged from the hospital.
The foreign body is a cucumber that is more than 10cm long and is removed. (Photo: provided by BV)
According to doctors, with a “huge” object like this, if not treated early, trying to remove it at home with careless manipulation will have very serious consequences such as intestinal obstruction, intestinal rupture, even may die.
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