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It's amazing what people insist on doing to themselves.

In the interest of "good taste" and limited server space, I won't post foreign body radiographs here.  Rather, there are quite a few other sites that specialize in those kinds of images.  Suffice it to say, however, that if a patient presents to you saying, "I was on a chair, changing a lightbulb and I fell and the wierdest thing happened to me...", or "I slipped getting out of the shower and...," take it with a grain of salt. 

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Related Links

A list of links for images of Genitourinary and Rectal Foreign Bodies and other generally gross things.  Be warned:  These photos are explicit in nature and may be upsetting for some.

www.endoatlas.com

Rectal Foreign Bodies

To see how rectal foreign bodies are treated and cleared

click here.

For a professional article dealing with pathophysiology and treatment of gastrointestinal foreign bodies

click here.

Fluoroscopic video of the act of defecation.

MD Choice Photo Rounds

Prolapsed Rectum

Complex Intestinal Fistula

Abdominal Trauma:  Injury to the Colon and Rectum on

Trauma.org

(Warning:  the photos associated with this article are graphic in nature and may be upsetting.  The photo on the intro page is of a 22-year-old man who was stabbed in the right buttock and developed necrotizing fasciitis <the "flesh-eating disease> which had spread to his upper and lower limbs.  Photo was taken after surgery with surgical wounds laid open.)

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