PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peeyush Kumar
AU  - Samar Rehman
AU  - Anil Kumar Singh Rana
TI  - Approach to rectal foreign body: an unusual presentation
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2018-224253
DP  - 2018 May 25
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2018-224253
VI  - 2018
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-224253.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-224253.full
AB  - Foreign bodies in the rectum are commonly confronted worldwide in the surgical emergency. Such a situation arises either accidentally or for autoerotic purposes. A wide variety of foreign objects have been reported in the literature and this usual object would add to the reports for its unusual location. We report a case of a 26-year-old young man with accidental insertion of hand shower in the rectum and no signs of any active bleed or peritonism. Extraction was done successfully in the operating room under general anaesthesia, with an uneventful postprocedure period and the patient was discharged after 48 hours of observation. Rectal foreign bodies can be of wide variety and can lead to life-threatening conditions. An orderly approach is required for diagnosis, management and evaluation in the postprocedure period.