The 70 year old arrived at the Canbberra Hospital Emergency Department with a bleeding sexual organ.
He told doctors he had inserted the ten centimetre dining fork into his urethra almost twelve hours earlier in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification.
But the utensil became stuck.
The fork was not visible but doctors where able to feel it from the outside and x-rays showed it's possition
Doctors considered several retrival options before deciding to pull the fork free using forceps and copious lubrication whiles the patient was under a general anaesthetic.
The elderly patient was then sent home.
The medical emergency was so rear the team of three doctors published the case in the international journal of the sugery last month.
The paper titled an "An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body", said it was rear to see objects in the lower urinary tracks.
It went on to list strange objects found inside other parts of the body, including, needle, pencils, wires, allen keys, tooth brushes, light bulbs, thermometres, plants and vegetables, leaches, snakes, cocaine and glue.
"It is appearent that the human mind is uninhabited let alone creative". The authors wrote.
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The real danger has infection leading to death because ashamed patients often delay medical treatments, they said.
Doctors generally try to avoid surgery in such situations, instead choosing an option that would minimize urothelial trauma and preserve erectile fuction.
The authors said self inserted urethral foreign bodies are rare emergencies that urological and general surgeons face on occasion.
While the insertions are unusual the paper said an imaginary object is known to be inplicated.
- Canberra times
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