DOCTORS battled to remove a pint-sized glass jar stuck inside a man's bum in a tricky procedure that could have killed him if it shattered. The unnamed man from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia , reportedly stuck a 0.5-litre mason jar inside his rectum that he couldn't get out.
Medics were tasked with performing the emergency procedure and worked hard to stop the container from breaking into pieces. They took care not to let the glass jar shatter into pointy shards during the complex surgery. If the glass did shatter, fragments could have cut up the man's insides and proved fatal.
The operation proved successful - and doctors managed to recover the complete jar, as well as a condom and lubricant from his rectum. READ MORE in health X-ray images from the hospital show how high up the glass container was placed inside the man's anus - travelling up to his rectum. Hospital spokesperson Alexey Nikonov told local media: "Remember that doctors are not the morality police .
"Stuck sex toys are often encountered in the practice of proctologists." Despite Russia's strict anti-LGBT laws, he added that locals should not hesitate to seek help from doctors should they find themselves in similar situations. Most read in Health It comes after a man was left in agony after he stuffed an eel up his bum once the sharp-toothed sea creature started to gnaw its way out of his digestive tract.
Disturbed medics in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch long eel in X-ray scans taken to diagnose the cause of his pain.