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A man needed a piece of electrical wire pulled from his penis after a DIY attempt to cure his urinary problems went dramatically wrong.
The 64-year-old from Pakistan pushed the 18 cm long wire into his urethra, but it got stuck.
He told the surgeons who treated him at Karachi's Abbasi Shaheed Hospital that he had inserted the object to help him urinate.
The man, who was not named, told them he had suffered pain and difficulty urinating for two months before he pushed the wire inside him.
Write in the diary Urological case reports Doctors said they could physically feel the wire in his penis when they touched it.
An X-ray revealed that the wire had extended up the man's urethra to his bladder.
Surgeons originally planned to insert a camera into the man's urethra to inspect the wire.
However, they could see it when they spread his meatus - the hole through which urine flows.
Doctors then pulled the object out by hand using tweezers.
This x-ray shows the wire (center) in the man's urethra and extending to his bladder
Doctors managed to grab the tip of the wire with tweezers and pull the wire back out of his penis
Here is a picture of the 18 cam (seven inch) wire after extraction. The man reportedly suffered no immediate complications when it was removed
Medics reported that the patient had no immediate complications such as bleeding or injury after the wire was removed.
In their medical report, the authors said that inserting objects into the penis - known as probing - was usually done for self-therapeutic purposes.
Insertion can cause infection, bleeding, and strictures, a narrowing of the urethra that restricts the flow of urine.
If an object gets stuck, it can cause other problems ranging from a burning sensation to the inability to urinate to erection problems.
More serious complications, such as: Conditions such as a hole in the bladder and scarring of the tube that carries urine out of the body may require major reconstructive surgery.
The authors did not say whether the man in the most recent case had inserted objects into his penis in the past or whether this was a one-time event.
They also did not say exactly when this happened, nor did they explain exactly why the man initially had difficulty urinating.
However, they said the man had been sexually inactive for three years.
Patients who have an object in their penis are usually hesitant to contact a doctor because of feelings of guilt or embarrassment.