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Published 15:20 07 Jun 2020 GMT
Doctors have been left stunned after finding a cell phone charging cable measuring two-foot-long inside a man's bladder.
X-ray scans show the entangled cable inside patient Wallie Islam's bladder, which doctors believe had either been swallowed or inserted for "sexual gratification".
The 30-year-old - who is said to have a "history of accidental ingestion of headphones" - visited the doctors after complaining of abdominal pain last week.
Wallie was given a two-day course of laxatives in a bid to alleviate the stomach pain before doctors performed a small incision into his gastrointestinal tract.
It was then that doctors discovered the charging cable located in the patient's bladder.
Doctors then decided that Wallie would need to undergo surgery in order to remove it.
Footage from the surgery can be seen below (Warning - this is not for the faint-hearted):
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A team of five medics performed the 45-minute surgery to remove the lead at Guwahati hospital, north India last Sunday (May 31).
A doctor, who admitted he had not seen anything of the sort in his 25-year career, said:
"We gave him laxative for two days as we did not want to do surgery immediately. The patient's stool was examined, but nothing came out.
"We decided to do a small incision and check the gastrointestinal tract.
"He might have been uncomfortable while telling us the truth, which led to us searching in the gastrointestinal tract.
"Though I'm not exactly sure about his mental health, some people do things for sexual gratification, but this man took things a little too far."
Post-surgery, Wallie spent three days recovering in hospital before he was released home.
